Quotes about Leadership

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

Two hundred and thirty-two years and they wait until the country's falling apart before they turn it over to the brother!

what became abundantly clear as soon as Sarah Palin stepped into the spotlight was that on just about every subject relevant to governing the country she had absolutely no idea what the hell she was talking about.

We better win this thing or the country is screwed.

And I say to you today that we need more folks in this country who are a good crazy….You can't tell what will happen when you get folks with some good crazy…going to the polls to vote!

In few other professions are you required, each and every day, to weigh so many competing claims—between different sets of constituents, between the interests of your state and the interests of the nation, between party loyalty and your own sense of independence, between the value of service and obligations to your family. There is a constant danger, in the cacophony of voices, that a politician loses his moral bearings and finds himself entirely steered by the winds of public opinion.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works

But know this America: we will meet them

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

knew policy; I knew how to consume and process information. It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn't a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.

"There are things more important," he told me, "than getting reelected."