Statesman Quotes

I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young assistant said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center - and then a second one - and a third, the Pentagon.
I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.
I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.
I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.
I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.
I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.
I'm not a politician.
I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.
I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my strengths, and governor Romney needs to find someone who wants to run with him. There are many people who will do it very, very well, and I'll support the ticket.
I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.
I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'
If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.
If it is not possible for me to go somewhere and to be willing to encounter people with different views, then I'm really not doing my job.
If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.
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