My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

The influence of ‚Hidden Fortress‘ comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it’s told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

The buck stops here!

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

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

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

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

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

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

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.