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

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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

Law is always better than war.

War is what happens when language fails.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

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.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least – at a minimum – I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively – presumptuous to say – relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

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

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That’s a statement in and of itself.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

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

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

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!

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

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

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

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

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

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

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 supported Donald Trump.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?