Quotes About Leadership

It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

You know, you don't have to be white to be president of anything. Even of the United States. I could be president! Black as I am! And if you white and poor, you don't have to be rich to get to be president either.

The church is the only nonprofit on the planet that does not want its leader to know everything he or she can about how the nonprofit functions and pays its bills.

Never Send Out a Line-Item Budget Again

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

J. Edgar Hoover

Party leaders stay in fancy hotels or take vacations, while rank-and-file members are hounded to donate the last dollar

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

Cuando usted lee la Biblia es evidente ver como Dios a veces unge a mujeres para ser iniciadoras.