A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Some day I shall be President.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

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.

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

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

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Effective action is always unjust.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

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.‘

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

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.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

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.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Nobody’s indispensable.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

One must steer, not talk.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.