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

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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

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.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Finality is not the language of politics.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

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

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Politics have no relation to morals.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

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

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

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

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Trump has no sense of shame.

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

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.

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.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

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

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

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

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

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

For a while… to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don’t want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen… I don’t want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.