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

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

It is always your next move.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

There is obviously a gap between the public’s perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite’s perception.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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

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.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

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

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Silence is safer than speech.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

I don’t write policy for my government.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.