I’m not a big politics guy.

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.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

‚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.

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

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

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

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 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.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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.

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.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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.‘

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

There is no gambling like politics.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

We are all the President’s men.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

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

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

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

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.