I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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.

I supported Donald Trump.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I’d get so panicked that I would stutter.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

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.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

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.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

We are all the President’s men.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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.