Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

I am not a crook.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

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

‚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.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

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

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I think America has always been polarized.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

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.

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

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

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.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

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

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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