We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

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

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

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

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

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.

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

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

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

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

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

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?

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

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

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

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.