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

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

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

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.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

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!

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

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.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.