Quotes About Leadership

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top

More intriguingly, in poll after poll, when Americans are asked what public institutions they most respect, three bodies are always at the top of their list: the Supreme Court, the armed forces, and the Federal Reserve System. All three have one thing in common: they are insulated from the public pressures and operate undemocratically. It would seem that Americans admire these institutions, preciselly because they lead rather than follow.

The American political system has lost the ability for large-scale compromise, and it has lost the ability to accept some pain now for much gain later on.

wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.

Good government is about limited power but clear lines of authority. It is about giving officials autonomy, discretion, and the ability to exercise their own judgment. It requires recruiting bright, devoted people who are inspired by the chance to serve their country and earn respect for doing it. This is not something that can be created overnight, but it can be done. Taiwan and South Korea were not born with good government.

The real test for the United States is political—and it rests not just with America at large but with Washington in particular.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are far more important symbols than any politician today, and they occupy the space that iconic political figures did in earlier eras.

For many decades, the world needed to learn from America. But now America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

Lenin is supposed to have once said

The highly unequal access to health care is part of a larger dynamic of a "pay-to-play" society, in which everything has become dominated by the market. Hospital executives and university presidents are seen not as societal leaders but as CEOs, and are paid to behave like them as well.

There is pride in good government.

common element? A competent, well-functioning, trusted state—the quality of government.

deconstruction of the administrative state." For four decades, America has largely been run by people who openly pledge to destroy the very government they lead.

For four decades, America has largely been run by people who openly pledge to destroy the very government they lead. Is it any wonder that they have succeeded?

The statesmen who led the Allied countries through war and depression knew better and resolved to give idealism a chance.

some of the countries that beat the virus had big governments, while others had small ones. What was the common element? A competent, well-functioning, trusted state—the quality of government.

America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

warriors and statesmen who survived believed that they had a duty to create a world that did not lapse back into nihilistic competition.

For the twentieth century, the great political debate was about the size and role of government in the economy—the quantity of government. But what seems to have mattered most in this crisis was the quality of government.

That raises the most serious threat to the liberal international order—which is not China's expansionism but America's abdication. The architect of this system is rapidly losing interest in its own creation.

Confiamos en Dios» reza el reverso de los billetes de diez dólares estadounidenses; pero la persona en la que uno realmente está confiando cuando acepta uno de ellos como pago es el actual sucesor del hombre que está en el anverso (Alexander Hamilton, el primer secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos)

Así se manipula a un hombre y se fabrica un héroe.

Três vezes do leme as mãos ergueu, Três vezes ao leme as reprendeu, E disse no fim de tremer três vezes: «Aqui ao leme sou mais do que eu: Sou um Povo que quer o que é teu; E mais que o mostrengo, que me a alma teme E roda nas trevas do fim do mundo, Manda a vontade, que me ata ao leme, De El-rei D. João Segundo!»

Comme d'usage, le Dictateur se trompe.