Quotes About Leadership

Just as Donald Trump is abrogating America's responsibility to lead the fight against climate change, Theresa May is evading Britain's role.

Theresa May is normally at her best when she is at her boldest.

My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.

Although I never wanted Theresa May to be our Prime Minister, I had been prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Theresa May... is ideally placed to implement Brexit on the best possible terms for the British people, and she has promised she will do so.

Ultimately, if BEIS fails in the historic tasks Theresa May has given it, we will all pay a heavy price.

The Conservatives have been unusually badly led by David Cameron and Theresa May.

Theresa May is singularly unsuited for high office and lacks political talent.

Theresa May has much to answer for, but it is not her fault that she couldn't square the circle of the Brexiteers' lies: nobody could.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface.

We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.

In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'

I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.