Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.