The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. – We are the ones We’ve been waiting for. – We are the change that we seek.
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.