Quotes About Leadership

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel?

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

The buck stops here.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

There is a right kind and wrong kind of victory, just as there are wars for the right thing and wars that are wrong from every standpoint…. The kind of victory MacArthur had in mind—victory by the bombing of Chinese cities, victory by expanding the conflict to all of China—would have been the wrong kind of victory.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.