You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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?

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

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

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

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

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

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.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.