You know, you can only lead them from behind.

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

Every President wants to do right.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

If I can be a leader, I will.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

My job is to play quarterback, and I’m going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

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

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad… he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It’s enough. Because it’s important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can’t run a state.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

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.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women and older women.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

To lead people walk behind them.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.