Quotes About Leadership

This is America, not a banana republic.

I have just come from the castle, where I have seen the president of the republic, and I can tell you that he has accepted all of my proposals without making any changes.

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

This country is a republic.

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

I read Mitch Daniels's book, 'Keeping the Republic,' several times.

It certainly seems to me we would like to bring in the best and the brightest individuals here to participate in this republic.

In a healthy republic, there is a need for figures who understand that the presidency is not the be-all and end-all of the people.

Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.

A banana republic we are not.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I'm a Republican.

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.