It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

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.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

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

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

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

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

When in doubt tell the truth.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Example is leadership.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

I don’t have all the answers.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.