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.

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.

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.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

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

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

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.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

How can a president not be an actor?

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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?

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

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.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

That government is best which governs least.

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

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

No one gives a damn what Iran thinks on any significant issue. The only reason Iran is at the big boys‘ table is because of their nuclear weapons program.

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

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

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.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.