Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Study men, not historians.

If you judge, investigate.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I think America has always been polarized.

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

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

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

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.

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.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

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.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

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

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

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.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

I’m not a big politics guy.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

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

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

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

A President cannot always be popular.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.