It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

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

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

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

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don’t buy it.

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.