Quotes About Leadership

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.

When I was just writing books and giving lectures, if people disagreed, they just didn't buy your book or attend your lectures. But, if you're leading a congregation, people feel they have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't talk about. And that hasn't always been easy for me.

I really was going to run for Congress.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

In 2010, we have to focus on electing a new Congress and in 2012 we have to focus on electing a new president.

Congress should get the job done.

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Congress doesn't hate Congress.

A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

A competition of the best ideas - that should be what Congress is about.

I think Roosevelt had four terms, didn't he? I think we should go back to that, and we should go back to four years for a senator, four years for a congressman, and I think we'd see a huge change in our society.

I just want to be a really good congressman. You should look at what you are today and be the very best you can.

You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.

My focus has been on being a good congressman, and there is so much other work to do.

Power is nothing if you can't connect.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.