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

A President cannot always be popular.

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

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I think America has always been polarized.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

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

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 am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

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.

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

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

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.

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

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.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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.

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.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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.

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.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

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

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Everything isn’t political.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

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.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.