In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

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.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it’s American or British interests involved.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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.

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

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

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

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

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.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

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

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.