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.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

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.

We can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Knowledge is power.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

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

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

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

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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 just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

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.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Democracy passes into despotism.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.