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

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

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.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

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.

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.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

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.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

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

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.