The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

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

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

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

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

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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.‘

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

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

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.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

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.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

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

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

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

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I think America has always been polarized.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

And what’s interesting, and I don’t think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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