I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

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

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

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.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

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.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

How can we help President Obama?

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

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.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Everything isn’t political.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

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

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.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

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.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

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

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

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?