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Quotes About Leadership

Donald Trump represents a threat both to the party and to the country. I believe he makes the world far more dangerous, I believe he puts America's economy in jeopardy. And his temperament is totally unsuited for the presidency.
~ Mitt Romney
It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.
~ Bruce Rauner
President Donald Trump is a direct and serious threat to our country.
~ Rashida Tlaib
Our leaders do us no service when they fail to recognize that the threat the so-called Islamic State and its allied terrorists represent is a civilizational, not a geopolitical, conflict and can only be understood through that lens.
~ Ben Domenech
There's got to be a role for an experienced football person helping the manager; not being a threat to the manager, but helping and sorting out a lot of the hassle he has, you know? Letting him concentrate on managing the football side.
~ Neil Warnock
Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.
~ John Ratcliffe
I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.
~ John Rhys-Davies
During my five-year presidency, no one, and I mean no one under any pretext can threaten the country's interest. It puts the nation in danger.
~ Jovenel Moise
It is not necessary, nor appropriate, to sow dissent and misrepresent employees or constantly to threaten industrial action.
~ Jim Ratcliffe
When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.
~ Preston Manning
I believe Theresa May has failed as leader of our party, which she threatens to destroy.
~ Mark Francois
I like to have a team environment where I can go anywhere and not threaten management.
~ Mark V. Hurd
Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.
~ Anna Soubry
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.
~ Michael Hayden
I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.
~ Paul Haggis
I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway - propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.
~ Jennifer Hyman
King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate because he was determined to marry a divorced woman. As a result of that decision, the Queen's father, George VI, was obliged to lead the country through a war that threatened its survival, with all the personal pain portrayed in 'The King's Speech.'
~ Michael Portillo
But I have on occasion suddenly realised that some men feel slightly threatened by, or slightly baffled by, or confused by, possibly even now, by having a woman in... a very powerful role.
~ Cressida Dick
There is nothing more threatening to Democrats than strong Republican women!
~ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.
~ Joanna Coles
There was a very famous leader in Atlanta who thought that education was appropriate, but on the whole, the view was, 'If you're going to keep people down, you have to keep them ignorant. And so, nothing personal, but we just don't want to recognize the attributes that man of learning would bring. Quite threatening, those would be.'
~ David Levering Lewis
Direct threats require decisive action.
~ Dick Cheney
Ours is a government elected by the people and it will not succumb to threats.
~ Nawaz Sharif