One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

I think America has always been polarized.

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

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

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

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn’t producing any more.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

How can we help President Obama?

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

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

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

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.