It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

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

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

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.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

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

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

When in doubt, don’t.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

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

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

I am such a political person.

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.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

You can’t have a value structure without a hierarchy. They’re the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.