To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

We need every person on Earth to acknowledge that climate change is real and encourage each other and our leaders to address the challenge.

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.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

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

Empire and liberty.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

People love conspiracy theories.

I don’t think I would run for president.

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

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

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 peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

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.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Some day I shall be President.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

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

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

Yup, the whole birther movement was racist.