Quotes About Leadership

When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

For more than a decade after the 2000 election, leading Democrats ran from their gun control past and bent over backward to assuage the fears of gun owners.

I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945.

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

The beginning of my political career was not promising. I ran for junior class president at Shortridge High school and was runner up. I ran again in the senior year with the same result. But opportunity came ironically, or fortunately, when I returned to Indianapolis after serving in the Navy.

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

I ran for Congress because I want to help change the way we do business in Washington, D.C.

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

When Lincoln ran into trouble during the Civil War, he got new generals. He brought in Grant. I hope that President Obama will bring in some new generals on the financial front.

We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana.

I want to be known as the mayor who happens to be Latino who made a difference. I ran to make a difference.

Dukakis ran without understanding that there was a Democratic Party out in the land, and he never did call on it.

He's a nice guy who will never change the Senate. He is the Senate. Eighteen years in politics, and he's got two cousins who are senators, too. Mark Udall's dad even ran for president.

We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.

The reason I actually ran for office is because of Hillary Clinton. Everybody was telling me why I shouldn't run: I was too young, I had small children, I should start at the school board level.

I have always been someone who wants to get it right. That started when I ran for school board. It's an avocation that's become a full-time job.

I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.