When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

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.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Politics is applesauce.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

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.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

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.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

We are all the President’s men.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

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.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

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

Empire and liberty.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

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

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

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.

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.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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.

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