Quotes About Leadership

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Kaysone Phoumvihan

he would dare to transform China and make it great. He would build his own Great Walls.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

How do you make a man do something without nagging?" "That," said Madeline, "is the billion-dollar question.

I seriously don't understand how men came to rule the world," she'd said to her sister, Bridget, this morning,

Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." His eyes gleamed in the shadows from the candlelight. "That's, ah, from Nelson Mandela's favorite poem, 'Invictus.

Former greats didn't necessarily make great coaches.

What are you doing?" he asked. "If it's anything like what I just came through, it's impossible." That set me. "Impossible?" This was the whole point of all the work and energy I'd put into the past five years. Everything aimed toward one thing: Iditarod. I lifted the snow hook. "Okay, gang. Let's go.

the Gordian knot that ties the present and future to the past." In Greek mythology, an oracle claimed that whoever was able to untie an intricate knot tied by King Gordius would become the next ruler of Asia. Alexander the Great, unable to untie the knot, became impatient and swiftly cut it with his sword. The idiom is now meant to express an intractable problem solved with quick, resolute action.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Im a boss, your man is just an employee mami. Let me upgrade you.

You aint gotta vote for us cuz we aint neva runnin.

Nigga we in charge, baby put me in charge, and Im just murdering niggas free of charge.

He said surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

And her nephew, getting his PhD at Wisconsin, was declared insane and committed to a state asylum when they discovered he was a leader in the Communist Party there.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle--the sheet anchor of American republicanism.

It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.

Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.