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.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

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.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

How can a president not be an actor?

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.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

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

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

In our age there is no such thing as ‚keeping out of politics.‘ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

The future will be better tomorrow.

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

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.