Quotes About Leadership

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Politics and football don't mix.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.