Quotes About Leadership

When people voted for Donald Trump, they knew he wasn't an angel.

I cannot be expected to behave like a film star when I have decided to serve my people. They have voted for me with expectations, and I cannot take them for granted.

One of the things I've pledged is in my first hundred days, only to do bipartisan proposals. Wouldn't it be amazing if a president looked at the American people at the inauguration and said, 'I represent every one of you, whether you voted for me or not and this is how I'm going to prove it.'

No country has left the E.U. since Greenland in 1985 and no one believes that delivering what the people voted for will be a walk in the park, so it's important that the person ultimately chosen by the party membership is tried and tested, capable of making tough decisions and can lead a team negotiating with E.U. institutions.

Regardless of whether they voted for me or not, I would like Poles to say after those five years that I really tried to be the president of all Poles, that I tried to answer their needs, that I was such a person.

Any of us who wants to go to Parliament must have that responsibility to represent the people who voted us in.

Your president, the one you voted for, is not involved in corruption. Your president was never in corruption.

People voted because of the trust they had in me, but Rangasamy betrayed us.

Any time you can be voted a captain by your peers is always a great thing.

I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.

The No. 1 thing I want a voter to think about when they see my name, or hear my name, is what I stand for, and what I want to do for them and their family while elected.

I think the average voter wants somebody who has the right philosophy and can combine that with the ability to get something done in Washington.

I think, at the end of the day, especially for municipal elections, we see relatively low voter turnout. So the goal is to expand who sees themselves reflected in government, who's empowered to take the lead in politics.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

We asked voters who'd never voted before... who don't believe that their vote makes a difference, to turn out in races like mine, and they did. What they deserve back is a leader who puts democracy first.

The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

I am honored to have heard from so many voters, supporters, and local elected officials who have been pleased with the work I have done on their behalf. They want and deserve a leader who will aggressively pursue strong conservative policies and get results. That's exactly what I have done.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

Many politicians are far removed from their own electorates and continue to make the mistake of ignoring their voters' problems because they live in their own world.

Politicians should not be trying to pick their voters. The voters get to pick who represents them.

Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.