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.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

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.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

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.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

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

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.

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

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.