Quotes About Leadership

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

People don't start wars, governments do.

How can a president not be an actor?

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I couldn t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We d find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together

Trust, But Verify...Ronald Reagan

The best minds are not in government.

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Great things can be accomplished, when it doesnt matter who gets the credit.

But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.