I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

How can we help President Obama?

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

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.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

In the real world, children love me.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

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.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

I teach children to be winners.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.