We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

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.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.

One man with courage is a majority.

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

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

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

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.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

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.

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 violence in the Bible is appalling.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Fear is the mother of morality.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

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