Quotes About Leadership

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.

I am running for re-election no matter who runs.

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

There's a lot of work to be done if you're going to run for president or if you're going to run for re-election in a state as big as Florida.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health. Some even reached out to the vice-president to consider them to be his deputy because they assumed I was dead.

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

Many of the most successful coaches and managers have come from players who never reached the highest level. The one exception seems to be basketball, where many of the greatest stars at least tried to coach a team.

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.

ROIers are always reaching out to me to share their appreciation for the experiences, opportunities and connections we have provided and also to express their excitement about taking the next step in their leadership journey.

I'll be reaching across the aisle to find opportunities to work with Democrats on the issues that desperately need to be addressed.