Quotes About Leadership

Every politician, in order to be a politician, has to be adept at the art of one and one thing only, and that is lying.

People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

I am not a politician. I am just a business guy who has had enough.

Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.

The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.

If Albert Einstein was right, Cal Ripken should have been a CEO or politician rather than a shortstop, because Ripken led by example over and over... and over again.

I hear from people all the time and it infuriates me that 'President Obama's a brilliant politician.' No he absolutely is not.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

I was not a politician.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

I think anybody who wants to be president has to be a politician, but I would like to find somebody who's coming from a loving place instead of a political place.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

Look, Orrin Hatch is not a bad guy. But he is an old guy, and he's a lifer politician.

I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm not a politician.

I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

It's interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.

Being a politician, I know how motivating it can be when the public is outraged.