One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

One man with courage is a majority.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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 would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

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.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

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.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

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

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.