On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

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.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

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

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I’m not a bad person.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

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

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Peace begins with a smile.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.