I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

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

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

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

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

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.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

It sure is hell to be president.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Forgotten is forgiven.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

We make war that we may live in peace.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

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

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.