I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

A President cannot always be popular.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

That government is best which governs least.