Quotes About Leadership

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

People don't start wars, governments do.

Government is not the answer to the problem - it IS the problem.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

A hated government does not long survive.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality