People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

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

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I can move any crowd.

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.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

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.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

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.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

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.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

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

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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.

I supported Donald Trump.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

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.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.