One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

I can move any crowd.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

That government is best which governs least.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

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

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

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.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Be the chief but never the lord.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

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.