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

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

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

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

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

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known – Nominee Barry Goldwater.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

Every President wants to do right.

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.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

‚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.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

I am such a political person.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Half a truth is better than no politics.