The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.

If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States!

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

The world is governed by opinion.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Good government is good politics.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.

We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

I began as a writer and started blogging in 2001, first on politics, anonymously.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.