When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

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

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

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

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

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

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.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

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.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

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.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

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

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

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.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

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.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I ran for the Senate six times. And one of the things I know about Senate races off years and on races, and on years, the same as governor’s races, is it’s all local. It all gets down to what the specific issues in that – in that district or that state is.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

A President cannot always be popular.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

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 best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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.

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.

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

People and organizations don’t grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both personal strengths and weaknesses.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.