It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

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.

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.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Fortune befriends the bold.

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

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Leadership is influence.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

It sure is hell to be president.

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?

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Talent without working hard is nothing.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

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

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

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.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.