Quotes About Leadership

You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring the ship in?

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world!

Powerful societies do not silence their poietai in order that they may go to war; they go to war as a way of silencing their poietai. Original thinkers can be suppressed through execution and exile, or they can be encouraged through subsidy and flattery to praise the society's heroes. Alexander and Napoleon took their poets and their scholars into battle with them, saving themselves the nuisance of repression and along the way drawing ever larger audiences to their triumph.

Ask any good teacher or any business executive who's been in the trenches. They will tell you that attitude trumps ability every time.

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

To rule the world, the Antichrist (or anyone) would clearly need a world government.

Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

I lead God's people on the path of righteousness and my inheritance is filled with good and wonderful things.

such were the ways of government. rather than attacking the problem aggressively, everyone was still pointing fingers and running for cover.

They're all about power and control. They're the tyrannical thumb pressing a head down to the ground, demanding blind obeisance. They want you to only listen to the word of their leader, instead of the loving word of God.

Goed dat er nog íémand is die weet hoe hij een koninklijk bevel moet opvolgen! - Nefertiti

Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?

Rolling across the floor, she reached Vigor. The monsignor crouched near the top of the firepit tunnel. She handed him her gun. "Down," she ordered. "Shoot anybody that comes into view." "What about you?" "No, don't shoot me." "I mean where are you going?

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.