How can we help President Obama?

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

I love being in a courtroom.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

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?‘

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

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

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

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

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

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

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters – and the church does not speak for me.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.