On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

War is what happens when language fails.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

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.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Of course awards matter.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

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

Law is always better than war.

I’m glad I can’t vote.