The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

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.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

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

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

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

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

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

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

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.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

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.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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!

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

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

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.