I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

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

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

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

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

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

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.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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 colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

The FBI should not be a political body.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

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.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.