I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

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.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

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

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

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.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

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.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

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.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

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

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.