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.

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

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

I can’t go out with a Republican.

A President cannot always be popular.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I think governments can’t do much.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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.

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

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

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

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.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

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

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

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.

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

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

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.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.