Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
ChanakyaLove is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
Kurt VonnegutFor 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.
Michelle ObamaJack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
Hunter S. ThompsonYou won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.
Richard M. NixonIf people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.
Michelle ObamaI wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who’s a dear friend of mine.
Angelina JolieA master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.
Robert GreeneIt’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.
Joe BidenThe good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma GandhiRichard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.
Hunter S. ThompsonLet me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
Dan QuayleFriend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
Joel OsteenRonald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.
Henry KissingerWell, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had – you know who was the first president – Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.
Jimmy CarterChaos is a friend of mine.
Bob DylanSilence is a true friend who never betrays.
ConfuciusI come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president.
Michelle ObamaA friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Frank OceanRichard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
Harry S. TrumanDo you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. KennedyWithin one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret AtwoodCongressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard Nixon, who would be something of a dangerous radical in today’s political scene.
Noam ChomskyMy friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Steven WrightIn criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan PoeI want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack ObamaLook at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren BuffettAnger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma GandhiEver since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
Jimmy CarterI can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
Lady GagaAbe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.
Joe BidenThe essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Henry KissingerNothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBy disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
Hunter S. Thompson