Quotes about Responsible Leadership

I'm a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

I push reforms. I tell the truth to people, even when it's tough for the country.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

Political courage requires clarity.

There are five traps for a general: recklessness, cowardice, incendiary character, refinement of honor and the care for his own people

Since George was a child he had led the Rokesby family with a firm but fair hand. He was a pillar; he was strength.

You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it's too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.

When in charge, take charge, but treat your subordinates with respect, dignity, and common courtesy.

Leaders at all levels must know their stuff, be dead honest, have unquestioned personal integrity, set the example, and treat their people "fair and square.

I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger

The Best Way to Chew Someone Out. When he absolutely has to take someone to the woodshed, Harvey prefers to hand them

We are world leaders in open and transparent government.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

She is buttoned-up as always, a smart suit, dark hair pulled back, never letting her guard down while on camera. Her job, she has told me more than once, is not to make friends with the staff but to keep them organized, praise good work, and sweat the details so I can focus on the hard, big stuff.

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.

Paulus abhorred inaction, always telling his son that even the wrong decision was better than no decision at all.

I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.