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.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

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.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

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

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

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.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

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

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

We’re news junkies in my house.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you’ve ever talked to that dude, he’s the sweetest guy in the world – he’s just a trip.

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

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

I’m no hillbilly singer.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

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.

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.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I’m a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it’s a process I’ve been doing since I was younger.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.