‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

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

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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.

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

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

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?

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

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.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

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.

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

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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!

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

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.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

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

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Due process should matter.

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 means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.