Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

‚Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age‘ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

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

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

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.