You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

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.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

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!

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I’m not a big politics guy.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

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

We are all the President’s men.

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

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

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.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

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

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

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.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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.

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

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Politics is applesauce.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

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

Every President wants to do right.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

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.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

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

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

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

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.