Quotes About Leadership

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each other, including an essential lack of interest in the well-being of the turf on which they fought.

One senses with so many Democrats who support the Clintons an unspoken sentence: "They're all we have." They're the only big national winners the party has left. I always want to say to them: That's not true, you've got better than that, you've got good people, go look and you will find them.

Things change. Time changes them. Great nations, and institutions, rethink. But only if they're great.

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service....

The recognition of Black citizenship progressed unevenly during Reconstruction and after, stymied by domestic terrorists, by high-ranking public officials who betrayed democracy, and by statesmen whose leadership proved to be politically indefensible and morally reprehensible.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He's about double the numbers now. Can you imagine if McCain had won and did precisely what Obama has done, with every speech and every political maneuver overseas? There'd be riots in the streets about the people we're killing. And yet because it's Obama, and he's better looking and better at reading the teleprompter, we let him get away with it.

I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.

thing we can do for the young is set an example,' said Oliver slowly. 'I discovered that long ago. They don't listen to us, they find most of what we have to say at best tedious and at worst inane. We can influence them simply by what we do and how we do it. Now think about

directorships, and at worst

Kings are like stars—they rise and set, they haveThe worship of the world, but no repose.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

War is the statesman's game

We have more moral, political and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice; we

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

It is both possible and necessary that we work with wolves without joining the pack.

Many people today are too bold to speak against men and women who are anointed of God.

While some say a total shutdown of religions and personal freedoms could never occur in the United States, just remember, the Russian Tzars never realized the impact of the Communist revolution until they were removed. The German people were deceived into thinking Hitler would be a positive leader. In our nation, oppressive and freedom-killing legislation would be the method used to chain targeted groups to the pillar of silence and irrelevance.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.