“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

No, I’m just a man committed to great ideas.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It is time to realize we are too great a nation for small dreams. We’re not – as some would have us believe – doomed to an inevitable fate.

A leader, once convinced a particular course of action is the right one, must have the determination to stick with it and be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive.

We must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Trust, but verify.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way.

Our military might is the guarantor of Russia’s security and independence.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Together, we are effectively taking on big-money interests and the political establishment and transforming American politics.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I’ve been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.