No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

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

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

We are all the President’s men.

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

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

I supported Donald Trump.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

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

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.