I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

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

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

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.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.