Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

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.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

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

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Political courage is not political suicide.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

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.

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

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

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

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

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.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

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

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

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 right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

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.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

How can we help President Obama?

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.