Quotes About Leadership

I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.

I opened Union Square Cafe when I was just 27 years old, and my first hope was simply that it would stay in business. My higher hope was that in its lifetime, it might grow to play an essential role in the lives of its stakeholders.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led by Gen. George McClellan, an incredibly cautious man.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave.

In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are.

'Make America great again,' is not that different from Putin's nostalgia for the Soviet Union or tsarist Russia.

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

There is no doubt that the second President Bush inherited a very serious terrorist threat, though not such a threat as had been represented by the totalitarian Great Powers, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear.

I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.

How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.

If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union, and part of that will be control of free movement.

The next leader of this country needs to be someone who believes heart and soul that Britain should be outside the European Union.