We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

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

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

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.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

How can a president not be an actor?

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

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

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

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

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

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

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

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

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

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

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

Empire and liberty.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.