You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

Every President wants to do right.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

There’s only one person in this race who will be there, who’s always been there for you, and that’s Hillary Clinton’s life story.

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.

The FBI should not be a political body.

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.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

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.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

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

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I’ve never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

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.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.