When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ‚How is the president?‘

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I’m not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Every President wants to do right.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

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 mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She’s incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she’s effective.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

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

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend. She is qualified to be President of the United States of America. She’s easily qualified to be Vice President of the United States of America.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

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

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

When Hillary served as Secretary of State, I watched her partner with President Obama to restore our country’s reputation around the world.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

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.

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.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.