Quotes About Leadership

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

We need to make sure that our policymakers and politicians realize that we are the future of the country, not only by words. We should ask them to invest the right resources for every school, every hospital and every community.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

The best policymakers know that in start-ups, as in politics, not everything works out exactly as planned.

I worry policymakers are not putting enough attention on what we should be planning for 10 years down the road. In general, governments aren't necessarily that good at looking down the road when it is a difficult issue.

Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.

The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.

Political movements always belong to the young.

I'm not a political guy.

I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.

I've fought very hard against populism throughout my political career. I'm very happy that Greece now has a moderate, results-oriented, non-populist government.

The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.