Quotes About Leadership

I have to have the mindset of Vito Corleone in everything I do.

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Bill Milliken is a big hero of mine.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

I learned in the Marines to leave no one behind, but after 34 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell left our coal miners behind years ago.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.

Interestingly enough, on every team there's usually a minimum of two and a maximum of seven knuckleheads on a roster.

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

Not only someone with epaulets can be defense minister. We're in a democratic country.

I am not the governor, administrator or chief minister, who can issue instructions to bring about changes. I can only advise.

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

In 2014, Modi's name was there in the minds of people due to the good work he had done in Gujarat as chief minister. He made Gujarat one of the most developed states in India.

I don't have any ambition to become minister.

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

I came in to make a difference, to be a minister, to make policy.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.