Quotes About Leadership

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

we will manage the worlds finance whether world likes it or not.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Every nation has the government it deserves

The most powerful sovereign has only two arms; his power depends on the instruments he uses and what he is given by public opinion.

It is written, By me kings reign. This is not a phrase of the church, a metaphor of the preacher; it is a literal truth, simple and palpable. It is a law of the political world. God makes kings in the literal sense. He prepares royal races; maturing them under a cloud which conceals their origin. They appear at length crowned with glory and honour ; they take their places; and this is the most certain sign of their legitimacy.

The people count for nothing in revolutions, or at most count only as a passive instrument.

MacArthur strode before his men, armed only with a riding crop, a cigarette holder clamped jauntily between his teeth, without the slightest suggestion in bearing or movement that he was under fire.

Pétain's mission was to quell the rebellion and continue prosecution of the war.

A great many of the Army officers were very fine in the way that they took care of their men. But there were certain very glaring instances of the opposite condition, and especially among these theorists, these men who were looking upon this whole thing as, perhaps, one looks upon a game of chess, or a game of football, and who were removed from actual contact with the troops.

The initial conclusion of the subcommittee was that "needless slaughter" took place on November 11, 1918. However, this finding was beaten back by vocal House members as a slur upon the nation's wartime leadership. The report that was finally approved found no one culpable for the Armistice Day bloodshed. Throughout

Before them stood a small, erect man who fixed them with a withering gaze, Marshal Ferdinand Foch. After cool introductions, Foch opened the proceedings with a question that left the Germans agape. "Ask these gentlemen what they want," he said to his interpreter. When the Germans had recovered, Erzberger answered that they understood they had been sent to discuss armistice terms. Foch stunned them again: "Tell these gentlemen that I have no proposals to make.

The railroad car stood in the midst of French villages that the war had effaced from the earth. The Germans were confronting an Allied leader who had learned of the death in battle of his only son and his daughter's husband in a single day. Foch remained cold to all entreaties, reflecting not only his own fixedness but orders from his equally unforgiving superior, Prime Minister Clemenceau.

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable.

instant-message-sending, mouse-clicking, iPod-listening, web-surfing pussies, and God didn't mean for the likes of them to run this planet on the backs of real men.

The ignoble fate of the political appointee.

if there was any job in the world that could kill you, it was corralling all the assholes in Washington you needed to get something done. "The

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

Und wenn Stalin seine Ge­neräle erschießt, dann brauchen wir das nicht einmal zu tuen. Ob wohl Stalin allmählich auch die Juden liquidiert? Vielleicht nennt er sie nur, um die Welt zu täuschen, Trotzkisten. Wer weiß? Jedenfalls sind wir nun mit Rußland verbunden. Wir haben bisher nur Vorteile davon gehabt. Der Führer hat Stalin in einem Film gesehen, und da war er ihm gleich sympathisch. Da hat eigentlich die deutsch-russische Koalition begonnen".

Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.