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

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

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.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

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.

That government is best which governs least.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

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.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.