Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

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

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

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.‘

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

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

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.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

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

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

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

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.

I don’t think I would run for president.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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 was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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

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

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

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

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.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

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.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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