Quotes about Leadership
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
- George Washington
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
- William Howard Taft
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
- Bill Gates
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
- Aesop
The greatest of all evils is a weak government
- Benjamin Disraeli
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
- Edmund Burke
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
- George W. Bush
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
- George Washington
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
- George Washington
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
- Eleanor Roosevelt