Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it"

Robert Brady, Politician

"It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins"

Jackie Stewart, Athlete

"You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans"

Xavier Becerra, Politician

"You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you"

Toni Braxton, Musician

"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself"

James Cameron, Director

"After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"But you know, the second month I was here, I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well, that's what they say. It was never about that"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders"

Steve Allen, Entertainer

"It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community, in easy and difficult times"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator"

Dick Murphy, Politician

"I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support"

Kenneth Blackwell, Politician

"To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats, were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in a Clinton candidacy or whether she really is something unique and has something to offer apart from her husband"

Barbara Olson, Journalist

"Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us"

Bob Taft, Politician

"He knows that you have ability, and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you"

Daniel Craig, Actor

"Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up"

Deval Patrick, Politician

"I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House"

Deval Patrick, Politician

"In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now"

Frank Dobson, Politician

"The Man Without a Country was an orator no one could silence and no one could answer"

Thomas Starr King, Clergyman

"But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought"

Lloyd Cutler, Lawyer

"I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain"

Mats Sundin, Athlete

"It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions"

Charles Edward Merriam, Educator

"In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman"

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Celebrity

"In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z, of which I am presently the president"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers"

Trent Lott, Politician

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be"

Rosalynn Carter, First Lady

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