Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

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.

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

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

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 think politicians really go with the tide.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

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

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

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

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

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.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

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

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

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

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.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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

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

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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.

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

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

How can a president not be an actor?

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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.

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.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.