Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Every President wants to do right.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

When we have peace, then we have a chance to save the planet. But if we are not united in peace, if we do not practice mindful consumption, we cannot save our planet.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.