Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Intimates are predestined.

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

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

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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

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

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

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

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we’re both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I haven’t been very active in politics.

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 a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Trump has no sense of shame.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I am not a crook.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

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

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.