We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

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.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

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

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

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.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

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.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

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.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

When you get angry, your options narrow.