Look, when you’re the president, there’s all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it’s just the nature of the job.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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

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

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

If segregationists had their way, I would not be a member of the United States Senate today, I would not be a top contender to be president of the United States.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

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

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

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.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

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 seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

One must steer, not talk.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

There’s always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There’s an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

People do not make wars; governments do.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Every President wants to do right.

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

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

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