Quotes About Leadership

My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum.

We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it comes from the left, it comes from the right.

I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can't remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn't mean they can't govern.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.

People always need to hear good motivational speeches.

I'm not one for those motivational speeches. I've always been more of an example guy.

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.