Politics is 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.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

A witty saying proves nothing.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

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.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Study men, not historians.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

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

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

If you judge, investigate.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

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.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

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

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.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

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.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.