The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

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.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

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.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

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.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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

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.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

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

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

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.‘

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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.

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.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

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.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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.‘

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.