Quotes About Leadership

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.

There's never any guarantee at war.

We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

My gut reaction [on Betsy DeVos] was, oh, my God. We are now back into the education wars.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

War is the father and king of all.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

We're fighting three wars now. Imagine how many we'd be fighting if President Obama hadn't won the Nobel Peace Prize.

They said that President Bush's war in Iraq has cost the former Spanish Prime Minister his job. So President Bush isn't losing American jobs anymore, he's branching out to other countries.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

We're in more wars today under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than under George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan. Yet they tell you that Bush lied and people died, and we were all over the Middle East.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have

How can you send somebody else's kid to war if you won't send your own?

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

I would never want to see myself viewed as beating the drums of war, ... but I would rather live with that image than look into the mirror and see a member of Congress who failed to do his duty.