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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

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.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

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.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

Empire and liberty.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

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

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

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

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

History, a distillation of rumour.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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?

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

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

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

Industry need not wish.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.