Quotes about Leadership
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
— Confucius
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
— Dan Quayle
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
— Harry S. Truman
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.
— Ronald Reagan
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
— John F. Kennedy
The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
— Albert Camus
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
— Thomas Jefferson
If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?
— Ronald Reagan
Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.
— Will Rogers