Quotes About Politics

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

The public will not forgive us if their wish to leave is subject to a bitter and a divisive Conservative Party leadership race between Remain and Leave camps.

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.