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.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

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

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

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’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

I think governments can’t do much.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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 want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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.

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

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I’m not an expert on how you get out of those things.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

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.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next 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.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

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

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.

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.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

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

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

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

We are all the President’s men.

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.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.