My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

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.

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

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

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

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

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

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you’re going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they’re not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

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

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.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.