You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

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

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.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

America is just downright mean.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

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.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

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.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

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

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

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

History is written by the victors.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?