Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle"

Thayer David, Actor

"I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters"

Pat Toomey, Politician

"A Labour Party is not a debating club, it is a party of action"

Karl Radek, Politician

"Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they'll offer at the negotiating table. There's also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing"

Mike Simpson, Politician

"Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist"

Rainn Wilson, Actor

"I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status"

Madeleine Peyroux, Musician

"Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both"

Martin Frost, Politician

"As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold"

John C. McGinley, Actor

"We're understanding what Obama is. He is the great teacher. He is this guy that stands above everybody. There's some condescension in it, but he stands above everybody and says, 'Now, listen. You people have to stop blaming each other unreasonably. You have to get along here and I am going to show you the way.' It is a pretty brave role in many ways"

Evan Thomas, Writer

"Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon"

Flavius Josephus, Historian

"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman"

John Keegan, Historian

"Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people"

John Keegan, Historian

"George Bush was for me, the most important ally on the road to German unity"

Helmut Kohl, Politician

"The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit"

Dwight Morrow, Businessman

"I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it"

Selena Gomez, Actress

"We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them"

Mark Skousen, Economist

"Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position"

Corbin Bleu, Actor

"I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"I represent the views and the values of the people of the district"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"It is because of me that today the Union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar"

Lalu Prasad Yadav, Politician

"I, Kenneth Robert Livingstone, having been elected to the office of mayor of London, declare that I take that office upon myself, and will duly and faithfully fulfil the duties of it to the best of my judgement and ability"

Kenneth Robert Livingstone, Politician

"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way"

Stuart Pearce, Coach

"Bill, the United States is not a company. It is a country"

Stewart Alsop, Writer

"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind"

Robert Dale Owen, Politician

"Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony"

Howard Stringer, Businessman

"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"

Tony Brown, Journalist

"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

"Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me"

Michael Dukakis, Politician

"So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much"

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Statesman

"You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back"

Peter Hain, Politician

"We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching"

Lloyd Bridges, Actor

"Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit"

Martha Reeves, Musician

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