With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets – and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

I don’t want to spend money the club doesn’t have; I don’t want to hold a player that doesn’t want to stay.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

I let the American people down.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

The buck stops here!

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

We are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.