Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in the hands of competent loyalists, thus assuring a successful launch and a highly successful first year"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery"

Marc Morial, Politician

"For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines"

Marc Morial, Politician

"Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important, tough issues that will affect the future of this country"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"There are not enough people out talking about the President positively"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way, I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King"

Zack Wamp, Politician

"The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to build bridges to the Democrats in some areas, notably foreign and national security policy"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"Mr. President, how are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?"

Jeff Gannon, Journalist

"We all want heroes, and we all want somebody to look up to"

Stacie Orrico, Musician

"And, you know, I watched him in Texas, where he stood on his principle, but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could, in keeping with his conservative principles, to make Texas a better place"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward"

Mike Rounds, Politician

"I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading"

Leonard Baskin, Artist

"This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them, rather than in any adversary relationship with each other"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"Our democracy poses problems, and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss"

Marguerite Young, Author

"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style"

Fred Astaire, Actor

"I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized"

Marguerite Young, Author

"The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S"

John Cameron, Writer

"In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America"

William L. Jenkins, Politician

"I think J.R. would make a better President than the one we have now"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on, and Denmark needs my leadership"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people"

William L. Jenkins, Politician

"They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors' highest priority"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall Director of National Intelligence and a National Counterterrorism Center"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

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