You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

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

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

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

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.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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’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.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

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.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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.

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

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

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.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.