In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

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.

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

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

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

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

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.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

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

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

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.

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

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

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

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

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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 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.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

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.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

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

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

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