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.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

War settles nothing.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

War is what happens when language fails.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

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

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

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.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

America is just downright mean.

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

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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.

Empire and liberty.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

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

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq’s Kurdish population and deeply embittering Sunnis in western Iraq’s Al Anbar, who lost any confidence in a Baghdad government they saw as adversarial.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.