Quotes About Leadership

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.

But the truth is Brazil is much more important than Bolsonaro.

A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers.

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn't think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no.

The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part.

I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums who constantly flip-flap from one side to another. People are interested in having candidates that are truthful.

It's important to be honest and truthful with your constituents. At the end of the day, we represent them.

I think it's really important that the people who are going to make decisions for other people have fair, truthful and compassionate regard for all people, not just some people.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.