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.

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.

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

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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

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

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

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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

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

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

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.

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

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.