There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

I’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Politics have no relation to morals.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

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.

A good leader doesn’t get stuck behind a desk.

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

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

I always play women I would date.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Some day I shall be President.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

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

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

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

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

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

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.