I think politicians really go with the tide.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Politics is 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.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Look at the way celebrities and politicians are using Facebook already. When Ashton Kutcher posts a video, he gets hundreds of pieces of feedback. Maybe he doesn’t have time to read them all or respond to them all, but he’s getting good feedback and getting a good sense of how people are thinking about that and maybe can respond to some of it.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

America is just downright mean.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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

Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

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.

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

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

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

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

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.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I don’t write policy for my government.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

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

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

It sure is hell to be president.