We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

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.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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

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

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

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

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

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

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.