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

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

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

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Empire and liberty.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I don’t follow politics much.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.