Read my lips: no new taxes.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

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

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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.

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.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won’t allow it.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

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

Empire and liberty.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

People do not make wars; governments do.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.