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

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

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

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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.

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

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

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

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

America is just downright mean.

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

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.