Quotes About Leadership

Donald Trump called George W. Bush 'the worst president in the history of the United States.' Then he added, 'Until, of course, I'm elected.'

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

You become a champion as a team. I understand that. I know the history of the game.

If you go back into military history, the person who's leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

President Obama is in no danger of being judged by history as an eco-radical.

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.