Quotes About Leadership

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men

When I find myself drawn away from my priesthood duties by other interests and when my body begs for rest, I give to myself this rallying cry: "Remember Him.

There is only one test of any political scheme or adventure in government. It is the quality of the human being produced by the political order and by the way of life occasioned by that order.

Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.

I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails the best hopes of mankind fail with it.

Headed by Roger Conant, a man still clear to us as possessed of leadership and force, these four went southward and westward from Cape Ann and settled at a place called Naumkeag, to be better known in future as Salem.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I would rather be right than be President.

I would rather be right than President.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

I'd rather be right than be President

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

Don't find fault. Find remedy. Anyone can complain.

Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain