If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Politics is applesauce.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

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.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

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.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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

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.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.