I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

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

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

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.

Everything isn’t political.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

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

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

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.

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

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

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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 don’t think I would run for president.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

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

I haven’t been very active in politics.

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

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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

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?

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

There is no gambling like 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.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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