Quotes About Leadership

I had ministers who were just outstandingly good.

Ministers may not be responsible for administrative errors, but they are responsible for major policy blunders.

I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.

Let the French ministers take care of France; we will take care of Italy!

I can't change my ministers. They are all doing a good job.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry.

I know the world is hungry for good ministry.

Without my ministry, I would just be Martin Luther King's daughter. You know, when people call me that, it doesn't bother me anymore. I know I am not my father. I know I am me.

It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.

My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life purpose of empowering women.

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.

It's important to be able to sit together and form a government of the majority that serves everyone, and not a government of minorities that takes care of itself.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

I think it's so important as a woman, and especially as a minority, to lift as you climb. So having people shadow you or mentoring people - that's important to me.

I feel there has to be a concerted effort that we encourage, in whichever way, more black and minority ethnic coaches to take their badges at the higher levels.

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.

I served 14 years in the state legislature and served in both the minority and majority.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.