Quotes About Leadership

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that's out of kings.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Every nation has the government that it deserves.

It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.

Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

I believe that a government has only one religion - India first. A government has only one holy book - our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion - towards nation.

People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.