Quotes About Leadership

Under every stone lurks a politician.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.