When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Power is competence.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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 think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

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.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Knowledge is power.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

One man with courage is a majority.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

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 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 have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it’s liberating, and it’s empowering when you feel like, ‚Well, I can do that, too.‘

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.