Quotes About Leadership

Strength and courage are basic virtues for both followed and follower.

Battle is a way of life, a necessary function of the worthiest members of society.

Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.

Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget that today. What I think inspired me was the fact that in spite of being the President of the United States he retained a certain down-to-earth quality. He never got to be a big shot, and he cared about people.

My view, is let Mike Dukakis go around there and talk about pink slips, despair, pessimism in the United States. I'll be the guy out there talking about hope and opportunity and challenge, and the fact that the United States is the best, the fairest, the most decent nation on the face of the earth. Let them apologize for America, and let me lead her to new greatness.

For the first time since World War II the international community is united. The leadership of the United Nations, once only a hoped-for ideal, is now confirming its founders' vision.... The world can therefore seize this opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a new world order.

A dictatorship would be a lot easier ... so long as I'm the dictator.

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

I'm a uniter, not a divider.

You know, one day you're being briefed on world affairs and asked to make decisions, and the next, you're in Crawford, Texas ... and the biggest decision is when do you go mountain bike riding.

Barney spotted our neighbor's lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

I want to be the peace president.

I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president.

It was amazing I won. I was running against peace and prosperity and incumbency.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

I understand not everybody agrees with the decisions I've made, but that's not unique to Central or South America. Truth of the matter is, there's people who disagree with the decisions I've made all over the world. But that's what happens when you make decisions.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq with the war on terror.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

Like all who have held this office before me, I have experienced setbacks. There are things I would do differently if given the chance. Yet I have always acted with the best interests of our country in mind. I have followed my conscience and done what I thought was right. You may not agree with some tough decisions I have made. But I hope you can agree that I was willing to make the tough decisions.

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.