Quotes About Leadership

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.

Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.

If I can become U.P. chief minister, then I think a day will surely come when the dreams of our people will come true.

Great players don't always make great managers, but I hope a golden generation of fantastic players' knowledge is not going to be lost when they surely have something to offer as coaches.

But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

My family has been around campaigns for a long time. It's something you really have to be sure that you alone want to do. Because if not, if you don't want to do it, that will just blow through the surface at some point, and people can tell. And when people can tell, it's all over.

Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena.

When I started to do work outside of surfing, commercials where I needed to lead, I came out of my shell more, and I realised I wanted to create an environment that's fun because, a lot of time on shoots, people are so stressed and running behind the clock in an intense way.

The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.

While everyone of all political stripes are admitting that the surge is working and dramatically reducing the level of bloodshed in Iraq, Obama managed to complain that the Iraqis aren't spending as much in rebuilding their own country as a result of the surge.

The Occupy movement flared and then seemed to fizzle out - until it re-emerged in the form of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign and in the far-left surge that made Jeremy Corbyn leader of the British Labour Party.

I do not intend to use the Surgeon General's Office as a bully pulpit for gun control.

The overarching issue, really, is our surgeon general should be able to communicate transparently and honestly with the American public on all issues.

I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would rather stay and be the doctor of the nation and stay as surgeon general.'

What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.

My father is definitely not the kind of guy who'd place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn't think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.

I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.