We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

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

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

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

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

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

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

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

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

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.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

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

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

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

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

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’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I like policy – call me a nerd.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

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

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

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

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

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

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.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I don’t follow politics much.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.