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

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

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.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

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

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

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

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.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

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?

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

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

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

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.

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.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

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

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.