I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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.

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

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

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

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

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

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

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

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

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

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.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

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

Everything isn’t political.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

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

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?

I pay attention to politics and technology.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

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.