There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

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

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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

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.

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

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

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.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I think America has always been polarized.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I don’t think I would run for president.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

I supported Donald Trump.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

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.

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

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

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.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.