There is no gambling like politics.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

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

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

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

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‘.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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.‘

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

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.

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.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

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?

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.