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

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Israel is a pretty crazy state.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

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.

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.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Be the chief but never the lord.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

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.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

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

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

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

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

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.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.