I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Politics is applesauce.

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

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn’t.

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

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

I’m not a politician. And I don’t want to be.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

There’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.