I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

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.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

That government is best which governs least.

America is just downright mean.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Politics is 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.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

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

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

People do not make wars; governments do.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Politics have no relation to morals.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.