With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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

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

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.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

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

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

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

‚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.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Be extra careful in the work environment with those who like to maintain their position through charm and being political, rather than getting things done. They are very prone to envying and hating those who work hard and get results. They will slander and sabotage you without any warning.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

It is always your next move.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

If you judge, investigate.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!