We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

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

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

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.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, ‚If you don’t know how to make the right decision, you’re not a director.‘

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

A good leader doesn’t get stuck behind a desk.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

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.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

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 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

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.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Control is the source of strategic power.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘