I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

I strongly support the Second Amendment and I believe the Second Amendment ought to be preserved - which means no gun control.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better.