There is no gambling like politics.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

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?

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

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.

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

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Political courage is not political suicide.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

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.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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

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.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

I pay attention to politics and technology.

People do not make wars; governments do.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.