When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn’t care whether it was the easy thing to do politically – that’s not how he was raised – he cared that it was the right thing to do.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

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

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

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

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

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.

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.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

One man with courage is a majority.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Hillary doesn’t play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime – yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

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.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

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

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

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

My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

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

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

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.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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