Leadership is a choice, not a position.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

If you want to be a good strategist, you can never just go off a principle you read in a book. You need to adapt what you do to the situation; no rule of thumb is true all the time.

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.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

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.

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

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

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

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

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

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

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

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

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

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

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

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

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

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.