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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

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

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

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

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

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

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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

There is no gambling like politics.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

History is written by the victors.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

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

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

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

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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

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

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.