Quotes About Leadership

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people.

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Political courage requires clarity.

Politicians move when the public requires them to move.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

The formulation of sound national policy requires finding the right overarching concepts.

What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations for no-fly enforcement in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.

America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

When I was the BJP president, I had fixed 33% for women in organisational posts. And BJP became the first party, not only in the country but in the world, to introduce women reservation in the organisation.