Quotes About Leadership

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.