Quotes About Leadership

Politics and acting are two parallel paths of my life.

I'm trying to create a better pathway for the next generation.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

You have to have patience to be a legislator.

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

As Democrats, we will never be fooled into believing that if we are patient enough, that Donald Trump could be a good president.

I think a coach, like a business leader who has people under him, needs to know how to wait patiently for the results of the work.

John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.

General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.

When I think about the Patriot Way, I think about a team.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

I want to light the lights of patriotism.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Bill Belichick makes it real easy for you to root against the Patriots.

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

One of the things historians do is we look for patterns. And in many ways, Donald Trump is a very easy read, because he operates in certain ways. And he is the king of distraction.

I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party.