If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

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

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in 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.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

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

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

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

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I think politicians really go with the tide.