Quotes About Leadership

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

It's all part of the pattern. This is a story of scandal and corruption, investigations, refusals to take responsibility. If this government continues in office, this will continue.

That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.

What country is stabler than Iran? Where else in the world would an assassinated prime minister be so quickly replaced?

I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.