If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

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

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

I don’t follow politics much.

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

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

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.

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.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

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

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.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

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

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

A President cannot always be popular.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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.

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?‘

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

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

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

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.