Quotes About Leadership

Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.' "

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

L'onestà politica non è altro che la capacità politica.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

I call the brave to the battle-line, I call the sane to the council -- I call the free millions of earth to the century ahead -- the century of the common man, established by you, the people. For this world cannot endure, half slave and half free.

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

A president is a minister, chosen to administer integrity and unmask evil schemes in its regime, how blessed is such a nation.

Courageous leaders obey God rather than men and will be rewarded, they are honest law-abiding citizens.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Fascism is a religious concept.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

Abbiamo dei vecchi e dei nuovi conti da regolare: li regoleremo.

Inside ever anarchist is a failed dictator

Y aunque yo era entonces un chiquillo, recuerdo que pensé lo siguiente: «Un hombre tonto no es capaz de hacer en ningún momento de su vida los disparates que hacen a veces las naciones, dirigidas por centenares de hombres de talento»

La moral política es como una capa con tantos remiendos, que no se sabe ya cuál es el paño primitivo.

Era aquello un nido, una hechura de políticos, de periodistas, de tribunos, de agitadores, de ministros, y daba gusto ver con cuánto donaire rompían el cascarón los traviesos polluelos.

del rey de Bélgica

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.