I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

Politics have no relation to morals.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

Trump has no sense of shame.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

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

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

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

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

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

I love being in the United States Senate.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

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

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.