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Quotes About Leadership

Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.
~ Ronald Reagan
When government disappears, its not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.
~ Lawrence Lessig
My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings.
~ Richard Holbrooke
Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.
~ Terry Gou
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
~ Jairam Ramesh
As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.
~ Dwight Morrow
I'm a small government conservative.
~ Tucker Carlson
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
~ Thomas Paine
As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
~ Al Gore
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The government is worst which governs most.
~ James Cook
Influence is not government.
~ George Washington
Sometimes there are no good choices for government.
~ Jason Kenney
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
~ Harry Browne
Atheistic secular humanists should be removed from office and Christians should be elected...Government and true Christianity are inseparable.
~ Robert Simonds
Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.
~ Mark Victor Hansen
Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.
~ Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
~ John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
~ Dean William R. Inge
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
~ J. K. Galbraith
Good government is good politics.
~ Richard J. Daley