But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

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.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

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 presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

A good leader doesn’t get stuck behind a desk.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

If I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.

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

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.