Quotes About Leadership

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Politics is not about power.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.

One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.