This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

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

Finality is not the language of politics.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

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.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

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

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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

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

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

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

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

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.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

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

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

America is just downright mean.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

I am not a televangelist.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‚whiz kids‘ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

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

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

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

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

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?

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

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

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.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.