Quotes about Leadership

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

Christ called as his Apostles only men. He did this in a totally free and sovereign way.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.