In politics nothing is contemptible.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in ‚array‘ as far as political purposes were concerned.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

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

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.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

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

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

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

I don’t think President Trump is a racist.

The wisest have the most authority.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.