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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

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.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

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

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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 probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

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

It sure is hell to be president.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

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

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

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.

Everything isn’t political.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

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.