Quotes About Leadership

deals with both vision and principle-based values. It's not enough to have values without vision—you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler.

Why allow John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi to dominate your book group when Jefferson, Lincoln, and King are in the room?

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

In a world of locked rooms, the man with the key is king. And honey, you should see me in a crown.

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

Si quieres mover montañas, debes ser capaz de mover personas.

when you pick an idiot for a job, you have to expect idiocy

Since 1789 nearly 2000 men and women had served in the U.S. Senate. Those folks could be divided into two broad classes—workhorses and show horses. One got things done, the other took the credit or assigned blame. Of late, that dichotomy had been brought into sharp focus, as the Senate seemed overrun by show horses.

Nearly every president had wanted a second term, despite the fact that history clearly taught the last four years would be nothing like the first. Either the president became overly aggressive, knowing he had nothing to lose, which alienated both supporters and detractors. Or he became cautious, placid, and docile, not wanting to do anything that might affect his legacy.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary - James Madison

Aren't you the president? Don't they all work for you?" "I'm a president with not much more than a year left in office. They don't really care what I think or do anymore. They're more interested in the next person who'll be sitting in this chair.

Ad Designandum Hastam. The Point of the Spear. For centuries that

no different from the myriad of other politicos he'd bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience.

Tell me, Bruce, what's it like to be second? Never the captain. Always the lieutenant.

Germans followed far too easily. Only a few dared to lead with all of the others, like ants in the mound, blindly fell into line.

What was the maxim? If you try to kill the king, make sure you do.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have to ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen. - William Churchill

Yet ignorance seemed the greatness weakness of conformity. A select few made all the decisions, and everyone else followed, regardless that those decisions could be wrong.

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people should live under the same rules it passes for the people. ... How can the American people trust Congress to fix a broken Washington when the people in Congress don't even live under the same rules as everybody else.

the meek inherit nothing

Perhaps he could encourage the House to impeach the idiot." She shook her head. "That only amplifies the problem. Everybody loves to scream impeachment. But that's not a tool to undo elections. The people chose Warner Fox. The fact that he may be incompetent is really not at issue. They've already decided they want him to lead them.

agreed with Harry Truman. It's amazing what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.

No one cares about some ex-vice-president or president

The first George Bush. And