Quotes about Leadership
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
— Shirley Chisholm
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
— Mark Twain
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
— Edmund Burke
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.
— Mae West
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
— Jay-Z
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
— Aristotle
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
— Ronald Reagan
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
— Abraham Kuyper