Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

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 reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

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

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

America is just downright mean.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

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.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

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.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

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

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

There is no gambling like politics.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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