I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Mine is better than ours.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

I just want to do well with the national team.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

How can we help President Obama?

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.