If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

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

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Of two evils, choose neither.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

When in doubt tell the truth.

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.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I give opinions, not advice.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

‚Bellyache‘ is totally fictional. I like writing about things that aren’t real. The song is about not trusting anyone and then putting trust in yourself and realizing that you don’t know what you are doing, either. Or realizing that things you do with a group of people that you think are cool in the moment are ultimately all on you.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

A promise must never be broken.

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.

I can move any crowd.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

I don’t like people going behind my back.