A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Truth is what works.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

The fundamental question I believe is, ‚Is political Islam in our best interest?‘ If not, what is our policy to authoritatively support the countervailing forces?

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

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

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.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.