I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her 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 know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

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

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

We have the best government that money can buy.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

A President cannot always be popular.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.