Quotes About Leadership

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.

My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them.

If you cannot fulfill the aspirations of people, what is the difference between you and the previous government?

War is party-blind. It doesn't care who is in the Oval Office. The forces that drive us to war don't care whether it's Republican, Democrat, or other. The fact is, these parties are prey to special interests. That is something Eisenhower was afraid of.

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.

Few things give me more pride and hope for our future than when I see women, of all ages and backgrounds, in leadership roles. We need even more women in elected office, running businesses, and guiding organizations.

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

I have never had demands on me as acute as when I was a parish priest.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its power and those who bear it.

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

I think generally, Pope Benedict did a good job cleaning up the way the church handled abusive priests but didn't go far enough in how he handled bishops who enabled them.

Priests focus on the spiritual. As a lay person I could show people how to be good Catholics in the world.