Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

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

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

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.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

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

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

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.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Politics have no relation to morals.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

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

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

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

That government is best which governs least.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

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

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.