It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

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.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

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.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

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

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.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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