Quotes About Leadership

Hold that thought, ya tracksuit Dracula. You asked about The Avengers. Y'wanna know the best part about being an Avenger? Having Captain America around you all the time. He just– The guy just brings out the absolute best in people. You… want to be good when he's around. You really do. Ivan, look around you real quick. Because, right now? Captain America ain't here.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

Of course I've gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the 'black dog' for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: 'I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.

The American president is a motherfucker.

He joined his hands together and made a steeple of his index fingers, which he placed under his chin, as if he was Confucius contemplating a deep philosophical truth about the universe rather than the boss of a musical equipment shop dealing with a late employee.

Lincoln didn't do great work because he solved the problem of his melancholy; the problem of his melancholy was all the more fuel for the fire of his great work.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.

your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?

Hell, we elected a demagogue last election in this country. People made some comparisons to Hitler.

Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.

There are people in the world worth laughing at. They're called politicians.

No crowd of millions ever banged down the door of Time magazine and demanded, "We want a president who's a good beer companion.

but the real shock this past year was finding out how frail has been our illusion of stability all along. We were a shallow country, held together by stale rituals and muscle memory. And now it is a shallow man who will take us wherever he pleases.

More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost.

As for the rest of them, God help us. Trump's continued success puts the onus on the field to try to out-crazy the frontrunner.

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government's seal of approval on that, they'll take it. But if you can't, well, they'll take that too.

Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins.

But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.

The difficulty for democracy is, how to find and keep high ideals.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves, and to prevent our getting the notion of a paramount right reason.