On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

We live in ugly times.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I am not a crook.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

I’ve rarely kept my distance from kind of – I don’t know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, ‚Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.‘

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever entrusted to humanity.

There is no gambling like politics.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

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.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.