Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

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

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

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

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

If you want to thrive in today’s economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

Leadership is influence.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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 we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

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

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

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

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.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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

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.

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