Quotes About Leadership

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

I prefer a government run like hell by Filipinos to a government run like heaven by Americans.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Less government in business and more business in government.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.