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

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

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

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

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

When in doubt tell the truth.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Everything isn’t political.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

I give opinions, not advice.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

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.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.