War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

‚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.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Some of the generals are saying, ‚We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.‘ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

America is just downright mean.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

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

I don’t write policy for my government.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

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

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

People do not make wars; governments do.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

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

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

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.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.