In politics nothing is contemptible.

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.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

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

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

It sure is hell to be president.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

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

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

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?

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

I love being in the United States Senate.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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

That government is best which governs least.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.