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

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

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.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

When in doubt tell the truth.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don’t speak unless I have to.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

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.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.