Quotes About Leadership

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

American can do better, and help is on the way.

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch itll be someone elses bones which go crack and not their own.

How many of those bastards lost people on D-day? Politicians start wars but they don't fight them. They cause the trouble and sign the forms and hide when the bombers come. How many of them suffered like I did? Answer me that.

Chinese communism lies the world's longest tradition of successful autocracy.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

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Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives.

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them.

Really, when you get to know him Ike's OK. I mean not grouchy or anything and not too bright. I mean OK for a general – you wouldn't want him to be President or anything like that.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

Despite the opposition of several prominent Republican officials,

governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance and the consent of men

Kings are above the laws

Though it be ever so plain, that there ought to be government in the world

cualquiera que sea la forma adoptada por la república, debería el poder dirigente gobernar por leyes declaradas y bien recibidas y no por dictados repentinos y resoluciones indeterminadas, porque entonces se hallarían los hombres en harto peor condición que en el estado de naturaleza