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

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

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

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

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.

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

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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 think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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!

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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.‘

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

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

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

A politician needs 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 loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

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.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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