Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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 don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

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.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

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

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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 general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

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

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

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

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.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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 can’t go out with a Republican.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

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

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Finality is not the language of politics.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.