Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices"

Greg Walden, Politician

"Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration"

Mark Hanna, Businessman

"The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"I think with new President Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong"

Emerson Fittipaldi, Celebrity

"We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness"

Katherine Harris, Politician

"As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president"

Dick Morris, Author

"Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks"

Ted Kulongoski, Politician

"You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills"

Lesley Gore, Musician

"They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain"

Francis Maude, Politician

"If you present good government, then elections look after themselves"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister last time in Italy, and president of the European Commission for more than five years"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body"

Mark Pryor, Politician

"As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies"

David Kay, Scientist

"We have a beautiful program, which is audacious, and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field"

Jane Harman, Politician

"The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"I believe in working in a bipartisan manner"

Erskine Bowles, Businessman

"I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it"

Ted Kulongoski, Politician

"We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to"

Juan Marichal, Athlete

"I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country"

Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer

"Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting, or ruining their opponents"

Frederick Scott Oliver, Writer

"Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative"

Christy Romano, Actress

"I believe politicians should always remain realistic"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"There are no crown princes at Ford"

Edsel Ford, Businessman

"Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience"

Ed Townsend, Musician

"Cause I was such a novice, and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was, because she was really a great leader in that regard, in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew"

Charisma Carpenter, Actress

"The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator"

Bob Kane, Artist

"It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is, but one of the authority it serves"

Adnan Pachachi, Politician

"We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show"

Alia Shawkat, Actress

"And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good"

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Politician

"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it"

Cyril Falls, Historian

"I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing"

Warren Bennis, Writer

"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition"

Cyril Falls, Historian

"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both"

Fawn M. Brodie, Author

"Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another"

Franz von Papen, Politician

"Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified"

Thad Cochran, Politician

"I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

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