Quotes About Leadership

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.