The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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.

It’s plain hokum. If you can’t convince ‚em, confuse ‚em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

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.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

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

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

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

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

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

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.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I have decided in 2020 to run for president.