My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

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!

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

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.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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.

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

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

There is no gambling like politics.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

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

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.

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

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

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

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.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

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

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

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.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.