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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

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

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

‚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.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

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

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

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

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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

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

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

A President cannot always be popular.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

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.

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.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

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.