Quotes About Leadership

Presidents going live from the Oval Office have used that platform to inform the American public, and also to do one of the most important parts of their job: to inspire the best in us.

I think that the great presidents have always been a little more clever.

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order in which they want to do those things.

I think that, ultimately, my father-in-law will change the United States for the better, restore pride to our country and go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents.

Our country is fortunate to have Bill Barr, a man of integrity who has served two U.S. Presidents, as our Attorney General.

The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.

Presidents are only seen on August 15 and January 26. Who knows what they do for five years other than this?

I've worked closely with presidents, especially with President Obama, and I realized that what good leaders do at the national level is no different than what we do at the local level.

It feels that while the young people are trying to fight for a world where there's equality, everyone's the same, everyone's helping each other, we want to take care of the planet... it seems like the people that are ruling and are being presidents right now want to do it the other way round.

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.

If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?

The last thing you want to see is your great players in the press box or in the locker room.

George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.

I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'

If somebody doesn't want to show up for a press conference I'll pull them from the card.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

If I'm the MVP of the NFL, and I lose a game and go to a press conference and walk out of it, that's not the example I want to set for people.

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

The best thing you can do as a leader when people are pressed is get the obstacles out of their way.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

When you are captain in any format, it definitely brings a lot of pressure on you and this is why its a big responsibility.

If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure.