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.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Richard 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.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

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

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

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

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

There is no gambling like politics.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

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.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

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

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn’t anticipate.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.