Quotes About Leadership

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I'd not only run, I'd win.

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party.

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

In presidential campaigns, experience as a candidate is an invaluable asset.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

On style points alone, Donald Trump makes GWB look magnificently presidential.

No one can change the definition of what behavior is presidential because that definition fundamentally depends on what our form of government requires, not on what one individual prefers.

Nigel Farage, the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, is a true populist; Senator Bernie Sanders, the former U.S. presidential candidate who campaigned for Hillary Clinton after losing his battle for the Democratic Party's nomination, is not.

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

The presidential race should not be a battle of personalities.

Governorships and Senate seats are the most common stepping-stone offices for presidential campaigns, and U.S. House seats are the most common stepping-stone positions for statewide campaigns.

In a presidential campaign, you can't lie. You can't hide what you are and what you want. You can't hide what kind of President you'll be. You can't keep on talking about nothing indefinitely and committing to nothing, you can't keep running away from debate, masking the challenges.

After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.

I've played golf with three U.S presidents.

In my opinion governors don't make the best presidents. That's my opinion and it's because they don't have the foreign policy experience and they have to learn on the job.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.