There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The wisest have the most authority.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

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.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

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.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

One must steer, not talk.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

If I don’t run for president, we’ll all be OK.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

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

The buck stops here!

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

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?

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

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.