The White House is the finest prison in the world.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

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.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

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

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

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

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

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.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

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

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

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.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Politics is applesauce.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.