Quotes About Leadership

The greatest of all evils is a weak government

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

If President Obama really wants to hurt the Syrian government, don't send cruise missiles. He should send over some of his economic advisers.

That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

This is government. There is no entertainment.

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.

The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Democracy is the most vile form of government.