Quotes About Leadership

I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Even if you feel all right, tell the actors you don't have full power, and they will help you.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

Power always works from the corner office.

Donald Trump is an instrument of a Power bigger than himself, and bigger than all of the power that's in America today, or in the world today.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

Those carried away by power are soon carried away.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home. People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than the example of our power.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Power is neither male or female.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.