I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

Dream and you shall become.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Big results require big ambitions.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.