How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

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.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

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.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

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

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

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

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

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.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

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.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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

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.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

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

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‘.