In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

A President cannot always be popular.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

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

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

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

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

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

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Every President wants to do right.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

The only definition by which America’s best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.