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.

I’ve always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

How can a president not be an actor?

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.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.