Quotes About Leadership

When I was the captain of a ship I never failed to bring my ship to port and I won't fail to bring Romania to safe harbor. The belief that the president no longer represents the people is false.

I believe that the mayor of the most diverse city anywhere in the world has to be a uniter, has to be someone that's comfortable in every community, has to be someone that represents all of us.

The Knesset members - Jews and Arabs - don't represent the state of Israel. The government is the one that represents the state of Israel officially.

I know that I'm carrying a bit of a weight on my shoulders of what I do represents more than just myself as a director. I wish that wasn't true, but it is. It makes me think about doing work that I believe in and that I believe I can do well, probably even a hair more than I would otherwise.

I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.

Trump was elected, in large part, to disrupt everything that the WEF represents.

My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.

Despite the belief of many career bureaucrats that elected political leadership works for them, our system is built on the idea that the permanent bureaucracy, such as it exists, works for the elected leadership, which in turn works for and represents the American public.

I've been left to wonder if it's the national Republican Party Scott Brown represents, or the people of Massachusetts? Let me add that I believe it's a fair question to ask of any of us, Republican or Democrat, who have the privilege of being sent to Washington.

Lula is off the charts. You cannot reproduce Lula; and you will always have to count him in.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.

Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

As far as I'm concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.

The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.

I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.