I trust Russia and China and Iran and North Korea like I trust a Jussie Smollett police report.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it’s direction you get in His Word or something He’s specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Trust, but verify.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Iran is not a nation-state; it’s a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.

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

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China’s behavior overnight.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

People love conspiracy theories.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

True friends stab you in the front.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I’m sure.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.