The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

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!

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

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

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

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

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.