Quotes About Leadership

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

How can a president not be an actor?

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.