We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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

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

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That’s also not true.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

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.

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

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Trump has no sense of shame.

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

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

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

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

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

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.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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 framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

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?

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.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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.

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

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

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.

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

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.