How can we help President Obama?

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.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

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

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

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.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

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.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

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‘.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

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 think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

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’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.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

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.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.

I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

I can move any crowd.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they’d both unite against an invasion from Mars.

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

I don’t really regard myself as a political figure.