I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist as sexist inhumane war mongers - well today as a conservative black Republican and former solider I'm here to set that record straight.

Of all the enemies of public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Throughout the 20th century the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority just cause right motive.

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have followed holiness I have taught truth and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters till they were right in their conditions.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats we will stop telling the truth about them.

Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I have never not once violated my public trust.

And it sends an important message to me because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me in landslide proportions and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Our cattlemen have given us the safest most abundant most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country so does the American public.

Before we decide to trust you with this power we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind but it should not be deaf.

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world but I feel like I've studied it enough.

Having been given that public trust we have a responsibility to share with the public.

I think the industry finally gets it. They've lost the connection with the American public and they've got to rebuild the trust with the American public.

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people it's an intimate medium of television and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

The power to investigate is a great public trust.