Quotes about Leadership

What's distinctively shocking about Machiavelli is that he didn't care. He believed not only that politicians must do evil in the name of the public good, but also that they shouldn't worry about it. He was unconcerned, in other words, with what modern thinkers call 'the problem of dirty hands.'

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?'

The only leader America should ever have is someone who understands that the people are the government.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

George W. Bush was president through some of the darkest days of our history and yet his optimism never waned. He is optimistic by nature, but he also understood the importance of always communicating a sense that things will get better.

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

He who walks with the wise goes farther than he who runs with fools.

Wisdom's slaves are better than folly's kings.

When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep.