A President cannot always be popular.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

I think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

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

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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.‘

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

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.

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

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

We have the best government that money can buy.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

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

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

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

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

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.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.