Quotes About Leadership

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

When in doubt, grab power.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

The big question now is who will take power in Afghanistan once the Taliban is defeated. I was thinking, how about Al Gore? He's not doing anything, he needs a job, and he's already got the beard.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.

Power's twin is responsibility.

The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.

The problem is, we have leaders and negotiators that don't realize we have the power. And they're essentially incompetent. And we would be able to straighten out that thing.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.