Be the chief but never the lord.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Some day I shall be President.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

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

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

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

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

Duty cannot exist without faith.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

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.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I’m no genius.