Quotes about Responsible Leadership

It is an axiom of politics that if there are real problems that responsible people aren't addressing, irresponsible people will exploit them.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

To have a good business, always have a caring heart.

Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.

My job is to Ã¢â'¬Â¦ do my job. Lead, for God's sake. Keep my nose out of places where the machine is working, and stick it in deep where it isn't.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

I see myself as a former politician, and in that capacity, I say to other politicians, 'Hold back.'

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

When placed in command, take charge.

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

leadership often means having to choose between two bad options and that good men have to make decisions that have bad consequences.

Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.

No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.

What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.

Good leaders always understand that Leadership is neither a recognition award nor a license to execute power, but it's a great responsibility to bring out the best in others while meeting their organizational goals.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.