Quotes About Leadership

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

When you take over a screwed-up situation, you need time.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

Scripts don't get movies made.

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen.

Me and Sean Payton have a great relationship.

In L.A., I think Sean McVay is one of the best play callers there is in the NFL, and I don't see him giving that up anytime soon.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

The way that I play is, I'm in the driver's seat.

We just can't stay in a safe Republican seat and sit back and watch while this country goes down the wrong path.

Sometimes when somebody wants to take the lead it's nice to take a back seat.

I don't care about keeping seats of power.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

We didn't lose the Punjab State elections for any other reason but the fact that seats were wrongly allocated.

As only the second Jewish person to lead a federal party with seats, I will say that antisemitism has no place in politics.

Being a woman leader is secondary to me - and should be to others.

I'm not the guy who's been in the huddle with 1.7 seconds left to go.

You can't manage a secret.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

I'm the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public.

I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.