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

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

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

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine’s economy.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

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

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

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

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

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.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

You can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

To lead people walk behind them.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Empire and liberty.

In politics nothing is contemptible.