Quotes About Leadership

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Politics is social work with power.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I had rather be right than be President.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.