Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

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.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

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 like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

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

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

We are all the President’s men.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

One man with courage is a majority.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.