I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

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

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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

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

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

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

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

‚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.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.