Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

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.

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

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

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.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

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.‘

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

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 claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

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.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

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

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

Political courage is not political suicide.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

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

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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.

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.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

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

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

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