Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

In the end, everything is a gag.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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?

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I don’t follow politics much.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

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.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

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.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

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

America is just downright mean.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

I can move any crowd.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

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?

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.

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

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

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