Quotes About Leadership

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.

I would be happy to run a race with Hillary Clinton any time.

I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.