For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

You cannot mix sports with politics.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we’ve got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

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.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

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.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

I’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.

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.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I supported Donald Trump.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

I think politicians really go with the tide.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

When Hillary served in the Senate, I saw her work day and night as a member of the Armed Services Committee – working with Republicans and Democrats to keep our military strong and protect our troops and their families.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

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.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.