If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

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.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

I mean, families are weird.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

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

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

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.

I don’t care about money.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

Morality is contraband in war.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I don’t write policy for my government.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

We will always be a family. Always.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

My grandpa was a preacher.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.