Leadership Quotes

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

Ellen Tauscher

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

James Crook

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

Ed Gillespie

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Sam Rayburn

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

Richard Saunders

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Jackie Stewart

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

R. S. Donnell

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

Randy Hultgren

Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

James Humes

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

Neil Sheehan

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Charles Edison

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach