On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

If someone told me I could play two Asian Cup finals, I wouldn’t have believed it.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I’ve done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I’ve ever had come true – I am so proud of that I can’t even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Law is always better than war.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Hopefully I won’t be the last big splash at Under Armour.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

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

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

War is what happens when language fails.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.