Quotes About Leadership

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.

Former President Shimon Peres was a leader and a statesman, and an especially wonderful friend to all of us. He will be missed dearly.

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year.

I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

I mean, Trump's Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort of walk in without being previously announced in any meaningful way.

When a very tough, old school leader announced that I was his pick to be Chief of Station in a small but important frontier post, a few competitors complained to me directly 'why would they send you?' I owe that leader much for believing in me at a time when few women were given these opportunities.

I think that my career and perhaps me being on the International Space Station can really show women and girls and everybody that hey, we're not just sitting at the table, we're leading the table.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

I've managed stations.