There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

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

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

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

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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?

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.

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.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

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

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

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Empire and liberty.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

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

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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.

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

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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

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.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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.

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

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

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

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!

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.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.