Quotes About Leadership

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.