Quotes About Leadership

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party -- the acid, final test.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election

What luck for the rulers that men do not think

A majority can never replace the man…. Just as a hundred fools do not make one wise man, an heroic decision is not likely to come from a hundred cowards.

The art of leadership.. consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

German are Rulers, not to be Rule.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.

I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.

The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.

My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I want to go ahead with my aggressive politics and the generals try to stop me. That's a false situation.

Staatsautorität als Selbstzweck kann es nicht geben, da in diesem Fall jede Tyrannei auf dieser Erde unangreifbar und geheiligt wäre.

When army review its forces more than 6 months and not attacking the enemy, know it is a danger to his people