Quotes About Leadership

I'm very goal-oriented. I do see myself doing something in public service.

Without question, my grandfather's example of public service throughout his life inspired Dad later to run for office himself. Wherever he went, whatever he did, Prescott Bush had plenty of admirers.

I don't want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I've been in public service.

Health care, whether I like it or not, is at the foundation of my public service.

I am drawn to public service.

I've dedicated my life in public service to defeating climate change.

I'm most interested in public service. I think that's something that I got from being part of my family, which is such an honor.

My grandfather Prescott passed down the idea that you would only run for office after you had built a financial base - then it was time to give back and go into public service.

The ideal post-Trump politician will, at the very least, be a deeply serious figure with a strong record of public service behind her.

The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.

Any person should have enough sense to know that a PM should have public support. Numbers should be with them.

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

I believe that politicians have a public trust to further debates about important issues. I firmly believe that every public debate holds the prospect of enlightenment.

It's difficult when you're an appointee of any administration to publicly come out and say before a crisis occurs to say that we need to do X, Y and Z to avoid a crisis, because you probably wouldn't be around very long if you did that.

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.

Democrats should never publicly criticize Obama.

In many ways, Ahmed Patel was the mind of Sonia Gandhi. Nearly everything we know about her publicly was constructed or revealed with his enabling.

I am not sure when it became de rigueur for presidential candidates to publish a work between hard covers, but nobody now runs for high office without having written, or having arranged for the ghostwriting of, a very large book.

I'm fortunate that I have a female publisher, and her boss is a man of color. My world is a little more diverse, but the majority of the business is not diverse at all.

My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was a lawyer. He was a state legislator. He was the publisher of Oregon's second largest newspaper. He was a pretty amazing guy.

I should have my own publishing companies.

Johnson Publishing Co. has always had a first-class image. And until the day I die, I want to keep that image.