“You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.”

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

If it’s a situation in which the public is being given access, you can’t discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don’t have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.