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

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Politics is 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.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

It sure is hell to be president.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

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

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

How can we help President Obama?

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 see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

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.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

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

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

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

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

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.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.