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

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism in a politics of hope?

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

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.

Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dull or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Dictators are the most insecure people on earth.

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.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Politicians just do an aerial survey of disasters. Genuine leaders carry out relief measures on ground zero.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

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

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

Africans require, want, to franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.