All authority is in the throne; and what is the throne? This wooden frame covered with velvet? No, I am the throne.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.

I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it, not because your position of power can compel him to do it, or your position of authority.

In our country, only what is talked about is seen as reform. If it isn't talked about, it isn't seen as reform. It shows our ignorance. My mantra is reform to transform, and I say in my government - Reform, Perform and Transform.