The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.