It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

I think America has always been polarized.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

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

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

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.

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.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

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

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

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.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I’m the king of the anthems.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

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

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.