I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Losing is tough.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

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

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

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

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

I give opinions, not advice.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.