Quotes About Leadership

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

If we look to people who make no mistakes, who were always on the right side, who never apologized for tyrants or unjust wars, we shall have few heroes and heroines

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that ... I never shoot blanks.

There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

Well, I'm not a crook.

You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam

One thing most software architects fail to realize is that a software architect is also a leader.

Like Janus, a software architect needs to be a keeper of doors and passageways, spanning the old and the new, incorporating creativity with sound engineering to fulfill todays requirements while planning to meet tomorrow's expectations.

Software architects have to take responsibility for their decisions as they have much more influential power in software projects than most people in organizations.

Most projects are built by people, and those people are the foundation for success and failure. So, it pays to think about what it takes to help make those people successful.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in November of 1972. And what we were elected to do, we are going to do, and let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job.

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.

men with guns stole our future by killing the best of our leaders, again and again—in one single tragic year, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. And day after day, death upon death, they steal our dreams by killing the people we love.

Whoever imagined that ours was a government of laws and not men

There'll be people better and smarter than you, Adam. There always are. Your strength must be to want it more, and let nothing get in the way. They called Robert Kennedy ruthless. But for a few months before he died, when I joined his campaign, I knew Bobby very well, and I can tell you he was most ruthless with himself. That's how you should be.

This country needs a leader, not a pollster; a healer, not a wheeler-dealer; a conscience-raiser, not a fund-raiser.