When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

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.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

How can a president not be an actor?

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.

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.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

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.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

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

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

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

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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!

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

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

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.