It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

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

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

God does not play dice.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Every President wants to do right.

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.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

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.

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.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

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

We have the best government that money can buy.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

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.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

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.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.