Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

I’m glad I’m not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone’s tape recording what you say.

I’m more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It’s just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

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

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

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

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

And I think it’s that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

One man with courage is a majority.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

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.

I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

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

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

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.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

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.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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