Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

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

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

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

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Leadership is influence.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Trump has no sense of shame.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, ‚Gee, isn’t that wonderful?‘

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

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

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

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

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

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.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.