Quotes About Leadership

Here's the thing Washington always misses. Washington always wants a deal. America wants a solution. Americans sent us here to solve problems.

We've really got to stop looking to Washington to fix our problems. It obviously doesn't have the ability to do that. People who are successful are not successful because of the president.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Politicians in Washington are useless.

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

With little fanfare, Jared Kushner is quietly tackling Washington's slow, outdated modus operandi while simultaneously engaging in high-level diplomacy that promotes America's interests on the world stage.

If we don't send people to Washington who, first of all, have done something more than talk for a living - which is what many politicians have done - nothing gets done.

My record proves that I don't make political or public-service decisions based on what typical folks in Washington do, which is, 'What's going to get me past the next election, or what's best for my career?'

Whether you're talking about Chris Christie, or you're talking about Rick Perry or Scott Walker or John Kasich, there's more interesting evolution at the state level than there is in Washington.

My priority always has and will continue to be the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn who sent me to Congress to represent them. Their interests come before Washington, always.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

The president said that he would unite this country, that he was a uniter, not a divider. Have you ever seen America more divided? Have you ever seen Washington more divided?

People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.