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

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you’re dealt?

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

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

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

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.

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!

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

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

To lead people walk behind them.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I love stories about women.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

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.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.