We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

A home without books is a body without soul.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

How can a president not be an actor?

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

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

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.