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

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

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.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

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

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

Remember, no one decides who they’re going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

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

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.