I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

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.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

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

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

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.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

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

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.