Quotes About Leadership

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

We need to do whatever we can, legally and within our power, to remove Donald Trump from office as fast as possible before something serious happens in this country.

My interest is in power. How power works.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.

When you're running, when you're in elected office, you're surrounded with power. And, so every single day, you have to remind yourself why you're here, and that people put you here for a reason.

Power in the hands of the stupid is often a dangerous thing. Hitler proved it.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

The world is a better place with Saddam in prison not in power.

There's no way to use power for good.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

The people with ideas have no power and the people with power have no ideas.

Power is not powerful without wisdom.

True power lies not in the spotlight, but in the influential shadows.