I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as ‚us‘ and ‚them‘ – he doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above… he knows that we all love our country… and he’s always ready to listen to good ideas… he’s always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

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

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Morality is contraband in war.

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

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

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.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it’s going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

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.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I’m not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player’s ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence… I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

All great peoples are conservative.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

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.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.