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

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

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.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

The wisest have the most authority.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

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.

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.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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