I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I’m not a big politics guy.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

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

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I’m a problem-solver.

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

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Politics is applesauce.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.