We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

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.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

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.‘

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation – and the entire biosphere – must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

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.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Saddam’s goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

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

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

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

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.