When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

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.

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

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.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

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

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

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

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it’s amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

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

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

If I can be a leader, I will.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.