Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Political courage is not political suicide.

A President cannot always be popular.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

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.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

It sure is hell to be president.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

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.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

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

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

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

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

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

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.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

How can we help President Obama?

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

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.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

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 have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.