The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

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.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

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

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

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

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

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

It makes sense for Japan to pursue a more independent role in the world, following Latin America and others in freeing itself from U.S. domination.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

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.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

There’s not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

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

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

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

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.

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.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

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.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.