Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

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

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

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

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

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.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

Every wall is a door.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

How can a president not be an actor?

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

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

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

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.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you’re decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do 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.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

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.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

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

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

You can’t do something forever.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.