Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Life could have been way easier if we can just use "Please, do not disturb" sign in our social lives!

It was time to bring out the world destructive weapons. It was now time to hit him where it would do the biggest damage, his pride.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

I can be a bit of an overachiever and always dance that line of balance between giving myself to work versus giving time to myself and loved ones.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.