One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

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 need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Senator McCain is Israel’s most unconditional ally in Mossad’s machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

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

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

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

The Democratic position seems to be everything is going to be free. Free education. Free health care. Free housing. Free love. Free kittens, I don’t know.

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.

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Politics have no relation to morals.