Quotes About Leadership

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

My sorority was filled with amazing, different, accomplished women across all fields. We had athletes, entrepreneurs. We had women who were killing it in the nonprofit world.

People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

I look at the likes of Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown and they're just normal people. They are humble and work away to become the best they can. That's the path I've tried to follow.

I normally talk to my players about everyday situations, and there are not really any secrets.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.

Normally, the coach does not like to make changes that are not necessary - because a team has to find itself.

Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.

There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the 'Con' into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the 'vat' into Conservative!

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

My dad was a high school coach for 30-plus years in North Carolina, and he was inducted into the North Carolina High School Coaches Hall of Fame. He's the best coach I've known, in every way, all the way around - relationships, motivation, going the extra mile, always putting his kids first and foremost.

Women have helped shape North Carolina in every discipline and industry, from manufacturing, medicine, and law to business, the arts, and sciences.

I'm going to coach here as long as I can. As long as I'm effective for North Carolina, I will be the football coach.

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

If North Korea chooses the right path, the country can draw a bright future for itself.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.