Quotes About Leadership

In a democracy, opposition politicians have a duty to hold the Government to account.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

Philosophically, I am very different from normal politicians, and normal consultants found that very hard to deal with.

Establishment, career politicians are about saying one thing and doing another.

It is only in our country that you see that not just invaders but politicians have robbed us, too.

I guess you can get politicians out of politics, but you can't get politics out of them.

People want politicians to address the big issues and if they can do it across the divide of parties then so be it.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.

It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.

Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

We've got to trust the politicians with these decisions.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

I answer that question by saying: 'Why Meg Whitman' which is: I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

It is not through any combinations of politicians that the outcome of an electoral campaign is decided.