Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

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.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

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

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

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

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.