"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does..."
"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
"I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me."
"Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness."
"If God is just, I tremble for my country."
"Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected."
"The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it."
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
"So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus."
"The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
"You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand."
"Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken."
"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required."
"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger."
"I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution."
"President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission."
"Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now."
"Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk."
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
"Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake."
"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 always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me."
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
"Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off."
