Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

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

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

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

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

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

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

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

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.

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

One must steer, not talk.

One man with courage is a majority.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

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

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.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

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.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

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

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?