You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Politics is applesauce.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

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.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

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.‘

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

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

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

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Empire and liberty.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

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

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.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

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.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

America is just downright mean.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

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

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.