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

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

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

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

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.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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.

Politics is applesauce.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

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 war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I think governments can’t do much.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

We are all the President’s men.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

It sure is hell to be president.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

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

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

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.

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 don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

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

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.

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

Man is not free unless government is limited.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

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

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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.