By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

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.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

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

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.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

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

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.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

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.

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.

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.

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.