Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Silence is a source of great strength.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

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 most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

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

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

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

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.

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.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

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

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

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.

To lead people walk behind them.

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.‘

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

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.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.