The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Ever 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.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

I think Hillary Clinton is a phenomenal woman, and I’ve gotten to know her, and I think she’s made some pretty major contributions over the course of her life.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Control is the source of strategic power.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

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

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

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

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

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

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.