I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

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

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

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

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

A good leader doesn’t get stuck behind a desk.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.