The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

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

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Obama, of course, outspent McCain.

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.‘

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

I like money, but it’s never been about the money.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

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.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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

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

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

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.