Finality is not the language of politics.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

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

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

When in doubt, don’t.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

Syllables govern the world.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

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.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

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.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Of two evils, choose neither.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

How can we help President Obama?

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

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

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

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

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.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.

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 would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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