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

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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!

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

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

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

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

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.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

There is no gambling like politics.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Finality is not the language of politics.

I’m not a big politics guy.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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 will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

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.

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

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

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

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

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

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

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.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

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

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.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.