Quotes About Leadership

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

The great problem with government is that it never goes bankrupt.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

My aspiration is not to be loved. It is that my government be respected and credible.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

I think of Texas as the laboratory for bad government.

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decisions.