Quotes About Leadership

The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was.

Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The 'C' students run the world.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.

If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don't want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances.

A President cannot always be popular.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?

I would rather be a Medal of Honor recipient then the President of the United States!

The President may have a great many powers given to him by the Constitution and may have certain powers under certain laws which are given to him by the Congress of the United States; but the principal power that the President had is to bring people in and try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

I'll come back to George Washington just long enough to say goodbye to him. He was a great man and a good man, and when his work was over as our great first president, he went back home to Virginia for his long-earned rest. Just three years later, on December 14, 1799, at the age of sixty-seven, he went to his final rest. As

Within the first few months I discovered that being President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or be swallowed.

Always nice to have an officer who can see past the end of his beard

them, "fall in behind the armored personnel carriers, at once." The Germans' boots pounded on the macadam

You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Great leaders rise out of adversity.