Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

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.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

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

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

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.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Every President wants to do right.

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

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

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.