Quotes About Leadership

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.

The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work. If you're not careful, it can grind you down.

I've always had a picture of the White House and it would always sit right in front of my desk. Whenever I was having a hard day I could look at it and remember what my goal was.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

Folks here in South Carolina want someone with a backbone, with a spine. Someone who's going to stand up for them and their families, regardless of who's in the White House.

On the 'Face the Nation' platform we are pretty consistently talking to White House officials most Sundays.

Numerous candidates lose their first White House race and try again four years later - but all of them do so after running surprisingly well the first time. No one ever talked about John Connally or Phil Gramm running again.

The Trump White House would be known for its high placement of females in key roles if the media were even remotely honest about the facts.

When I went back to the White House to be the communication director under Obama, I was six-months pregnant.

Holding political leaders accountable on behalf of voters is at the core of what I do every day in my role as Chief White House Correspondent, so to do it on the national stage at a critical moment in the primary is a responsibility I take really seriously.

I worked on Capitol Hill, I worked in the White House and I've worked in politics enough to be familiar with the basic broadstrokes of public policy.

A visit to the White House is a coup for any foreign leader, it's a useful weapon of soft power.

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.

Even without the euphoria of 'yes we can,' Hillary Clinton is to white women what Barack Obama was to African-Americans. She represents the opportunity to see a like image in the Oval Office for the first time.

Normally, 'black responsibility' is a forbidden phrase for a black leader -- not because blacks reject responsibility, but because even the idea of black responsibility weakens moral leverage over whites.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color - African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and progressive whites.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.