I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

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

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

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.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

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.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Politics is applesauce.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?