Quotes About Leadership

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.

I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan)

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

I sought advice and cooperation from those around me--but not permission.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Our upriser is The Mahdi, who should be waited for in his absence, and obeyed in his appearance. He is the third of my sons.

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

If you wish to be heard in the noise of this world, let your soul be dominated by a single idea. It is the man with a single idea who creates political and social revolutions, establishes empires and gives law to the world.

real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power...

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;

Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing; he was later to say that the sport was an apt one for men in public life because you could face one way while going in the other.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

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.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

These men breathe hard but the committee has a voice of steel.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Talents at the bottom, only sociopaths at the top.