Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Reagan was extreme. Beginning of his administration, one of the first things was to call in scabs – hadn’t been done for a long time, and it’s illegal in most countries – in the air controller strike.

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.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

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.

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

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

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.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

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 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 have decided in 2020 to run for president.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

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

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

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.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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

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.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

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.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

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?

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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

I don’t follow politics much.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

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

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.