Quotes About Leadership

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

In politics a week is a very long time.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.

Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.