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.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

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

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

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

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

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.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

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.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.

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

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

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.

I’m not a big politics guy.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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