I’m the only president you’ve got.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

There is no gambling like politics.

How can we help President Obama?

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.