Quotes About Leadership

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been , that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.