Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

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

There is no gambling like politics.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

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.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

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.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

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

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

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

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

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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