At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

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.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

I’ve just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

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

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

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.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

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

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

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.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

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

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.