Quotes About Leadership

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.