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

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

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

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.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

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

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

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

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

A President cannot always be popular.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

The U.S. military was segregated ‚til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

History is more or less bunk.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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

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.

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

How can a president not be an actor?

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

History is written by the victors.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

What is past is prologue.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.