If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

I got my own back.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

My fat never made me less money.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

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.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

I can move any crowd.

A President cannot always be popular.

Political courage is not political suicide.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I do believe in self-help.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

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

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.