I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

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.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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.

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn’t long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

We can’t allow the world’s worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world’s worst weapons.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I’m committed to the fight game.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

To lead people walk behind them.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

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.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.