You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

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

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

It sure is hell to be president.

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

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married – we became an interracial couple.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

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.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

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 hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

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.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

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

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

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 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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.