The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

When America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn’t do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

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

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

To make headway, improve your head.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman – not me, not Bill, nobody – more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.