Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Fear is exciting for me.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

A right delayed is a right denied.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Racism is real in this country.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.