As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

A good leader doesn’t get stuck behind a desk.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The wisest have the most authority.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

When in doubt tell the truth.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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 would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

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.

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.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.