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.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

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.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

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.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

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

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

America is just downright mean.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

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

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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

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

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.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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.

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.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I am such a political person.

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