Quotes About Leadership

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

I believe in the American promise and I think is up to those of us who have been honored with the opportunity to represent the people of our state to make that promise true for every American.

I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.

None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civilized condition of forming and maintaining free governments, and among those who are so far advanced, very few indeed have had the good fortune to form constitutions capable of endurance.

Aska is going to create history and show the way to the entire country by sending a member of women SHG to Parliament and four women members to the state assembly.

When I'll... form a government, I don't intend to cooperate with those who go against the State of Israel.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked to do by the president and the first lady and the State Department. I believe that we accomplished that.

My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.

But at the end of the day, I want people to say that I played a major role in restoring people's confidence in the ability of state government to be on their side, to fight for them, and again - I'll say it again - to get things done.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

Serving ice cream isn't exactly like serving in state government, but what I learned guides me today.

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

State government is filled with dedicated, diligent professionals.