Quotes About Leadership

I am writing now not because past American presidents have always risen to the occasion but because the incumbent American president so rarely does.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That's the only kind of leadership I know—or believe in—or will practice.

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

The world won't be taken over by guns and swords. It'll be with smiles and signatures.

To ignore those who stand out as harbingers in favor of those cleave to the status quo is to refuse engagement with the future if not to misunderstand the nature of youth itself

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

Culture is not a territory to be won; it is instead a resource we are called to steward."4

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

There is at least one official voice in Europe that expresses understanding of the methods and motives of President Roosevelt," began a New York Times report in July 1933. "This voice is that of Germany, as represented by Chancellor Adolf Hitler." The German leader told the Times, "I have sympathy with President Roosevelt because he marches straight toward his objective over Congress, over lobbies, over stubborn bureaucracies.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. Here

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.

But the idea burned into her mind as much as anything else was that she had lost because she'd hired people who put their own interests above getting her elected. The

Nor was anyone empowered to both enforce Hillary's will and tell her when she was wrong without fear of reprisal.

There was no room in his kingdom for the princes of the defunct super PAC. Once he'd extracted the group's lists, which he thought had limited value, they were done.

Hillary didn't have a vision to articulate. And no one else could give one to her. In

camps could exert control over their delegates during

Jonathan Allen

Carter also showed respect by becoming the first American president to visit sub-Saharan Africa while in office: a state visit to Nigeria in 1978. He invited more African heads of state to the White House in his first year than any of his predecessors had in four.

Jim Cannon, Baker's top aide, knew that his boss was "more responsible than he is ambitious." When Cannon advised Baker that voting yes would prevent him from becoming the Republican nominee for president in 1980, the senator snapped, "So be it.

But that wasn't how Carter rolled.