And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest – and everybody agreed rugby was. It’s a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

I think America has always been polarized.

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.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

In America there’s no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.