The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Example is leadership.

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

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.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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.

By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

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

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

I like to feel blonde all over.

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

The buck stops here!

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

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.‘

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

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.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

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

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

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

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.