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

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

That government is best which governs least.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It’s nice to say let’s be bipartisan. But we’re a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

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.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you’re the mayor. The bad news is, now you’re the mayor.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But 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.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

There is no gambling like politics.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama’s entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

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

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.