It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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!

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

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I don’t think I would run for president.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

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

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.

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

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

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

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.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

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

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

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.

The FBI should not be a political body.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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 glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

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 think America has always been polarized.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

I don’t follow politics much.

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

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.