Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin‘ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

To lead people walk behind them.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

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

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

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.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least – at a minimum – I’ve been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I’ve been relatively – presumptuous to say – relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

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.

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.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

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.

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

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

As president, I’m committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Ethics and power are separate.