As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

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

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I don’t think I would run for president.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.