True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

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.

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

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

America is just downright mean.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Every President wants to do right.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.