It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

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.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I am such a political person.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

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.

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.

The buck stops here!

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

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.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

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

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I don’t have all the answers.

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

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

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

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.