Quotes About Leadership

sorry about my father — but I don't run Panem.

I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.

Say what you will, I've done more for Capital reconstruction than the president himself', Sejanus joked halfheartedly.

So this is how a war starts.... Not with two armies facing off, waiting for the signal to charge.... It begins much more quietly. In a room, on a field, in a remote tunnel when someone who has power decides the time has come.

We're going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don't look so suspicious; it's worked before.

And now Coin, with her fistful of precious nukes and her well-oiled machine of a district, finding it's even harder to groom a Mockingjay than to catch one.

Come on in, Mockingjay. And by all means, bring your friends.

But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.

Wars are won with heads, not hearts.

leader is only as strong as the force that stands behind him.

See, this is why no one lets you make the plans,

I prefer to think of myself as a legend, but I suppose 'guide' will do.

I heard Coin say, "I told you we should have rescued the boy first." Meaning Peeta. I couldn't agree more. He would've been an excellent mouthpiece.

but I don't run Panem.

Of course, I hate the Capitol, but I have no confidence that my being the Mockingjay will benefit those who are trying to bring it down.

To become the Mockingjay . . . could any good I do possibly outweigh the damage?

Despite reservations on Coin's side that it's too extravagant, and on Plutarch's side that it's too drab,

Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack.

I am the mockingjay.

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags.

Las guerras se ganan con la cabeza, no con el corazón.

They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts," he says. "Then they needed someone to set the whole thing in motion. They needed you." "They needed Peeta, too, but they seem to have forgotten that,