Quotes About Leadership

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

You can't separate desperate politicians from violence and trouble.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.