The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

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

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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 am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

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

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

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.‘

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

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

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

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

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

Watergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.

I have a reputation for taking on governors a lot more powerful than me.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

It sure is hell to be president.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

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.

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.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

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.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Clever tyrants are never punished.