President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

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.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

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

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

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.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

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

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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.‘

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

All art is quite useless.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Politics have no relation to morals.