Quotes About Leadership

It's a myth that I run things at Syracuse University.

I've been dealing with a lot of pressure coming from Syracuse and having the ball in my hands my sophomore year after a bunch of guys left. And it was my job to lead the team.

I was No. 1 in college at Syracuse. I've been No. 1 a lot.

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

For us, sovereignty of Syria is very important.

I can only say it is not for us to decide who should lead Syria. It is for the Syrians to decide.

You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

Assad is the president of Syria. He enjoys fairly effective control over his country.

It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.

There's a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.

In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.

We don't see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there.

I'm a little disappointed in what's happened. I'm beginning to lose faith in Obama. This Syria thing is ridiculous. He should not be drawing red lines.

The people who are fleeing Syria, they're the ones who need to run the country there long-term.

Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else. This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.

I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.

Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.

A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.