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

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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

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.

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‘.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

How can we help President Obama?

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

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

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

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

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.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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

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

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.