When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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.

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

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

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

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The wisest have the most authority.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

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

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

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.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.