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"I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training"
John McCain, Politician
"The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time"
John McCain, Politician
"The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'"
John McCain, Politician
"Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain"
George Will, Journalist
"Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet, and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter"
George Will, Journalist
"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone"
Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman
"Grown men do not need leaders"
Edward Abbey, Author
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test"
Lou Holtz, Coach
"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader"
Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier
"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"Leaders grasp nettles"
David Ogilvy, Businessman
"A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
"Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft"
James Russell Lowell, Poet
"We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done"
Nancy Pelosi, Politician
"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
"Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners"
Fred Allen, Comedian
"In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!"
Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why"
Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist
"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it"
Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality"
Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist
"Look at our Lord's disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?"
Richard J. Daley, Politician
"Power without a nation's confidence is nothing"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
"The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened"
Richard J. Daley, Politician
"No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party"
Richard J. Daley, Politician
"Good government is good politics"
Richard J. Daley, Politician
"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests"
Peter Marshall, Clergyman
"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it"
James A. Garfield, President
"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think"
James A. Garfield, President
"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis"
James A. Garfield, President
"I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace; and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty"
Davy Crockett, Explorer
"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir"
Tacitus, Historian
"I have the people behind me, and the people are my strength"
Huey Newton, Activist
"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision"
John C. Maxwell, Clergyman
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