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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.

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.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

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.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

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

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said ‚Let us pray.‘ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Everything isn’t political.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.