The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

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.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

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

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

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

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I will not run for president. No, nope, not going to do it.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

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.

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.