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

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.

We spend so much time sublimatin‘, thinkin‘ about, ‚What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?‘

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.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

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

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

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

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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.

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

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

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.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.