The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

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.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Be the chief but never the lord.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

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.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Silence is safer than speech.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.