Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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

Sadly, the truth is, there aren’t many people who can be put in high positions who won’t start thinking highly of themselves.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

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

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

Leadership is influence.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

A President cannot always be popular.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

When you are president, being able to clearly articulate detailed plans to help the people of this country is a good thing. Knowing what you’re doing is a good thing. And let me tell you, Hillary Clinton absolutely knows what she’s doing.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

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.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be… The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

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

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy’s finest hour.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

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.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

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.

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

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.