This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

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

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women’s organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man’s world.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

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.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Every President wants to do right.

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.

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

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Trump has no sense of shame.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

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

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

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 was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

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.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.