Quotes About Leadership

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

I'm not in the business of politics.

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

I don't do my job as minister based on polls.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

I don't look at polls. It's about results. And every single time that people have had an opportunity to vote for me, we've been on top.

We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.

People often complain that celebrities after joining politics are not seen once the polls are over. But I am not like them. I would work for development.

When I fight elections, I don't think about results whether it is assembly or Lok Sabha polls.

Azam Khan must be barred from contesting polls.

DMK's arrogance of being in power at the Centre will be put an end to by AIADMK in the Lok Sabha polls.

The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.

My district doesn't come to vote to the polls against something because they fear something. They will come to the polls to vote for something because they are inspired by something.

Nitin Gadkari requested me not to fight Lok Sabha polls. I told him how it is possible? I head an independent political party which has mass support. Gopinath Munde too met me and requested me to adjust.