One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

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.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

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

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

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 think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

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

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

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.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

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.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

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.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.