Quotes About Leadership

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

My constituency is my top priority.

Of course it would be great to have more scientists in Congress. But what I'd love is to have another Lyndon Johnson in Congress who makes climate change his first priority. We need people who know how to work the system and the institution.

I'm really proud of a lot of the achievements we've made as a government but obviously I'll be putting my mark on the premiership and doing things that I think are important in terms of my own personal priority.

Our priority as a team is to finish first and second, irrelevant of the order.

My top priority if elected mayor is matching Portland with economic opportunity.

As Governor of New Hampshire, my top priority is the safety of our citizens.

I don't look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.

'Prison Break' really changed me to somebody that can put butts in seats.

I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

There are people who went to prison, died, gave their life so Obama could be president of the United States.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

As governor, I am not interested in building more prisons.

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

I built private sector jobs all my life.

The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.