Quotes About Leadership

The Government's business is in sound condition.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

The business of government is justice.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Governments are not representative.