Quotes About Leadership

I intend to be a strong Speaker. I hope to make some imaginative changes around here.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right.

I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.

I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.

I think Paul Ryan would make a great speaker. And people like him are the kinds of people that we need.

I'm calling out the enemy. He is Speaker Paul Ryan.

In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.'

My dad wasn't the best speaker like a Bill Clinton, or a Henry Kissinger, but he had character.

You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.

Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House.

I think Nancy Pelosi is extremely qualified to be speaker of the House, because she has been speaker of the House. I trust her leadership. I trust her judgment.

As Speaker, I passed protections for Mainers with pre-existing conditions to prevent insurance companies from denying them coverage - that's the kind of leadership we need in Washington.

House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

We need the speaker to be an institutionalist for the Congress, not to be a defender of the deep state.

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.

I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.

If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.

I know what it takes to move cities forward. It's not about rhetoric and great speaking, but it takes relationships.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.

The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.