The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat.