Quotes About Leadership

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.