It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

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

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it’s actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions… If people feel like they don’t have control over how they’re sharing things, then we’re failing them.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

A career is born in public – talent in privacy.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.