In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I think America has always been polarized.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

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 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.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Solutions are not the answer.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

The Arab population of Palestine are victims of genocidal actions; their lands are confiscated or deprived of water supplies in the semi-desert areas, and their homes are destroyed with heavy wrecking equipment.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.