I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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

I am not a crook.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

That government is best which governs least.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

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 can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

I love being in the United States Senate.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.