Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

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.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there’s layer after layer of management – a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

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

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

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

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

One must steer, not talk.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.