The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Following the missile crisis, detente started to gain ground between the United States and the Soviet Union, so the international political climate improved after that.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that’s international terror, and we can go on and on.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison – they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

America doesn’t have health insurance.

That government is best which governs least.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

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.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

It’s always great to perform at home in the good ol‘ U.S.A.

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

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

I don’t write policy for my government.

Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.