Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

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

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Some day I shall be President.

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.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

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.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

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

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

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.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

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

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world’s strongest economy.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Duty cannot exist without faith.