Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
The best way to contain China and make it the peaceful rise of China is for us to have an enormously robust navy that is the greatest navy in the world, that can patrol two oceans, that can fight two or three wars, and China will not challenge us because the Chinese are practical.
All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
Courage is being afraid, but then doing what you have to do anyway.
I think abortion is something that, as a personal matter, I would advise somebody against.
I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who’s coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.
I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.
We don’t all agree on everything. I don’t agree with myself on everything.
God help this country if we’re now prepared to vote for someone we don’t trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.
America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There’s nothing like America.
If you don’t find a way to do something as work that is fulfilling and enjoyable, then your life is going to be really sad.
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
We want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we are not going to be able to recover significant numbers of people.
I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.
Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.
The minute Putin went into Crimea, what Obama should have done is sent 50,000 troops to NATO. He didn’t have to engage them, just send them. That puts the fear of God into people.
The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.
It’s about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.