Quotes About Leadership

The Republicans in the House and the Bush administration are bankrupting this country.

Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn't care about piling up debt.

Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.

I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

When the media's attacking me, when the establishment Republicans are attacking me and the Democrats are attacking me, that means I'm the 'We the People' person, and I'm on the right course as far as I'm concerned.

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

Republicans will own Congress.

I think it's important Republicans be in the majority so, like my Democratic counterparts, I give to the party.

As you get older in the league, being around younger guys who come in hungry and just flying around every day energizes the whole group. It gets you going. It gets you ready to practice.

When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?