An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

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.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I don’t see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that’s almost inconceivable.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

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.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Saints need sinners.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.