Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

There is no gambling like politics.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

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

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

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.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

We are all the President’s men.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

I don’t follow politics much.