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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

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.

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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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.

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.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

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.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Politics is applesauce.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

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

‚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.

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.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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 think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

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.

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

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.