Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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

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

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

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.

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.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

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

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

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

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

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

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

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

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.