The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

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!

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

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

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

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

One must steer, not talk.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

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

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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.

I am such a political person.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

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.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

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

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

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.

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.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.