Quotes About Leadership

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Politics is but a narrow field.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

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

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.