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

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

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.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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?

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

I am such a political person.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

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.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

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

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

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.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

I love being in the United States Senate.

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.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

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.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

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