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Quotes About Leadership

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
~ John F. Kennedy
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.
~ Harvey Fierstein
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
~ Harry S. Truman
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
~ James Monroe
God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.
~ Tony Evans
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
~ Ben Jonson
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
~ Frank Herbert
Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?
~ Doug Stanhope
This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.
~ Jacques Delors
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.
~ Laurence J. Peter
What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
~ Thomas Frank
The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.
~ John Ralston Saul
The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.
~ Ronald Reagan
Government is not show business.
~ Warren Beatty
It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government
~ John Rawls
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
~ Edmund Burke
It's wrong to criticize government without offering a possible alternative.
~ Jacque Fresco
I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
~ Edward Heath
Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.
~ Angelique Kidjo
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
~ Tony Blair
All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil.
~ Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi