I just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Be the chief but never the lord.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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.

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.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

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.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

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.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

How can we help President Obama?

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?

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

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

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

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

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

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

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‘.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

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.

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

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

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.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.