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

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

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

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

For me, education was power.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

I just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

Be the chief but never the lord.

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.‘

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

When I did ‚Bird,‘ it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn’t in it and second because most of the films I’d been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

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.

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

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

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale. But there are a lot of other things I want to do first.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

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

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

People that’s in power – the central banks, these fiat currencies that are traded globally – they got influence over the messaging and the narrative in the media.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.