Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

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

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

History is more or less bunk.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

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

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

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

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Study men, not historians.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

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

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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

I don’t write policy for my government.

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

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.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

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?

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

I don’t follow politics much.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.