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Quotes About Leadership

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
~ Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.
~ Joel Miller
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
~ John Bercow
The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
~ George Washington
The last thing the Province needs is a minority government
~ Hazel McCallion
I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.
~ Todd Park
And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
~ Tony Abbott
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
~ Peter Senge
The reform of government needs to continue.
~ Jim Nussle
Right now there's kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.
~ John McCain
Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
~ Wendell Phillips
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
~ Tony Abbott
Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
~ Jose Manuel Barroso
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
~ Terence McKenna
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
~ Walter Lippmann
Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
~ Tony Abbott
I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.
~ Keith Olbermann
I've always been about less government.
~ Kelly Clarkson
Our government is a gift from God, who calls us to be good stewards of it.
~ John Shimkus
Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.
~ Sarah Palin
We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell