I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

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

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I am not a crook.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can’t do that, once every two months or every four months.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

Political courage is not political suicide.

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.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

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

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.

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.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Finality is not the language of politics.