Quotes About Politics

I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.

If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.

In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.

The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by large corporate special interests is beyond mere recognition as fact. The takeover is complete.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

This is a long, long, faraway goal, but 2036 I am running for office to be president of the United States. So you can put that in your iCloud calendar.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

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

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.