Quotes About Leadership

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures.

Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

Too many terms corrupts politicians so they only want to be reelected.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

Democracy is too important to be left to politicians.

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

I admire personalities. Some politicians who are only great mice are just persons.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

Life is challenging enough without politicians to confuse us.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I don't have business with any politicians.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.