I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Revolutions go not backward.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

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.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

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.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

We have not yet reached the goal but… we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

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

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s more than that. It’s essential for your children and your children’s children.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

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

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

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

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

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

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

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.