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‘.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

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.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

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.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

They say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

A President cannot always be popular.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

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

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Vanity is but the surface.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I’m not a big politics guy.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

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.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.