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

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

Evangelicals can’t be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

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

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

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

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

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 spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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.

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.

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

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I don’t follow politics much.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

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

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.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I am such a political person.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

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.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

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

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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