Politics And Leadership Quotes

#1. Take for instance, a society where the prevailing value system is that you only go into politics and leadership to serve and not to make money. In such a nation, people know that those who go into politics and leadership come out of it poorer than they went in.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Molly Ivins

#3. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Ogwo David Emenike

#4. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Pope Francis

#5. What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Krishna Udayasankar

#6. Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Herman L Glaess

#7. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Eliot Spitzer

#8. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.

Phil Mitchell

#9. Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?

Archibald Marwizi

#10. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Tom Clancy

#11. MEASURED IN THE BLOOD spilt in leadership challenges or the bile spewed daily in parliament, the developed world's most stable economy has produced the most volatile and petty politics.

Nick Bryant

#12. Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Simmons

#13. From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Abigail Adams

#14. As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.

Tabby Biddle

#15. While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.

Phillip Adams

#16. Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.

Archibald Marwizi

#17. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

Terry Pratchett

#18. The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections

Fela Durotoye

#19. A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

Harry S. Truman

#20. No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

Knut Hamsun

#21. Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

Peter Prange

#22. If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

C.J. Sansom

#23. Making a wrong choice in the leadership would be the end of mankind when run by the immature contestants, but from the divine's glory it is to verify if the mankind is really serious of keeping the planet earth by apprising and enhancing the consciousness.

Vishal Chipkar

#24. Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success.

Bonnie Marcus

#25. In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#26. The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

David Pietrusza

#27. When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing your options for effective results.

John Eldred

#28. The lack of vision in public life and the emptying out of values that visionless leadership creates lead to a politics of complaint.

Jim Wallis

#29. If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.

Fenley Douglas

#30. Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.

David Ignatius

#31. Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

Christine Pelosi

#32. A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.

Archibald Marwizi

#33. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?

Maddy Malhotra

#34. Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it!
Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

Bill Maher

#35. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

Mary Cunningham Agee

#36. I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

Tony Blair

#37. What we need, we are told every day, is more and better leadership. But what this demand involves is a closer and closer approximation to fascism. The fascists alone have evolved an efficient form of leadership: efficient leadership is fascism.

Herbert Read

#38. We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Paul Ryan

#39. The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#40. The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

H.W. Brands

#41. He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Robert A. Heinlein

#42. Might without right makes blight

Agona Apell

#43. We need an assembly, not for cleverness, but for setting things straight.

William Golding

#44. Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn't just to diagnose the disease but to treat it

Narendra Modi

#45. Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. Now it is clear that Israel needs a leadership that proceeds strongly toward peace, or else the extremist right will hijack the situation.

Hanan Ashrawi

#46. In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Jeff Greenfield

#47. The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

Huey Long

#48. The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

Matthew Norman

#49. Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

Arthur Miller

#50. You need to have the means to impose yourself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#51. Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

Gilad Atzmon

#52. If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Marie Lu

#53. This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men.

Theodore Roosevelt

#54. Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#55. If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.

Criss Jami

#56. Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Archibald Marwizi

#57. Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#58. (John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.

Scott Farris

#59. An employee's inability to be wrong, obsessed with their personal agenda, or complacency with the comfort of their title and paycheck often keeps them stuck in selfish politics and silo mentalities.

Angela Lynne Craig

#60. I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.

Nancy Pelosi

#61. If you cannot lead, do not mislead.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. What supporters say about their leader
tells men a third about who he is.
What supporters do for their leader
tells men two thirds about who he is.
What supporters give up for their leader
tells men all of who he is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#63. It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader's heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.

Archibald Marwizi

#64. Some leaders are born women.

Geraldine Ferraro

#65. The sacrifice 'of' self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice 'for' self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it is the quicksand within which nations perish.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#66. Never let your Enemies become your Advocates." by A. K. Hasan

A.K. Hasan

#67. Publicity is the engine of politics.

H.W. Brands

#68. The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#69. We must train our 'future candidates' on not only how to win elections but how to govern well.

Fela Durotoye

#70. From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

#71. Politics is motion." John Sears

Rick Perlstein

#72. Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.

Archibald Marwizi

#73. She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

Dennis Hastert

#74. Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

Tim Wirth

#75. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.

Keith Ellison

#76. In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

Eskinder Nega

#77. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

#78. If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.

Nick Hanauer

#79. As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Mark McKinnon

#80. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...

Brandon Sanderson

#81. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate

Sanjaya Baru

#82. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Rush Limbaugh

#83. Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

Scott Adams

#84. In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.

Billy Graham

#85. Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

George Friedman

#86. Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

Stephen L. Carter

#87. Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

Jon Meacham

#88. President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Lindsey Graham

#89. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.

Miriam Defensor Santiago

#90. Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Michael Short

#91. ... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.

Nicholas Gane

#92. As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate ... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

Benazir Bhutto

#93. A leader must produce other leaders. Why do you want to produce followers, when by being called a leader the assumption is that you already have followers? Influence those who follow to birth their kind and develop others to lead.

Archibald Marwizi

#94. The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

Edward L. Bernays

#95. Since Lenin died, every Soviet leader had been a liar. They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality. The most striking characteristic of Soviet leadership for the last sixty-five year was the refusal to face facts.(1075)

Ken Follett

#96. No great leader can be made by image-builders.

Ymatruz

#97. In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.

Yingluck Shinawatra

#98. He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

Niccolo Machiavelli

#99. If you despise your people,
you will disregard them.
If you hate your people,
you will harm them.
If you esteem your people,
you will serve them.
If you love your people,
you will even die for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#100. Creating the right mind-set and a positive attitude today, will help you to start crafting a clear plan of how you intend to make your life a success.

Archibald Marwizi