Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Example is leadership.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Leadership is influence.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

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

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

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

I think governments can’t do much.

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

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

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.

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

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.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.