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.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

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.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

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

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

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

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I’d play ‚em over and over.

The proper study of mankind is books.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

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.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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