Quotes About Presidential Leadership

#1. Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

Saib Tabrizi

#2. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

David Pietrusza

#3. For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Tom Clancy

#5. American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

Monica Crowley

#6. Presidential candidate Donald Trump had a meeting with Ted Cruz. He said he does not know why he agreed to fly to New York to meet Ted Cruz and then he promised to bring that kind of leadership to the Oval Office.

Conan O'Brien

#7. Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of ... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Mohsin Hamid

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

David Pietrusza

#9. The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought for the benefit of this country since 1918.

John F. Kennedy

#10. Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.

Brian Williams

#11. Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily.

Dinesh Sharma

#12. Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Douglas Brinkley

#13. I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.

Ronnie James Dio

#14. There's just something about making whoopee out under the stars that keeps a heart young, a mind sharp, and"
she leaned close to whisper in Meg's ear
"your coochie ready to do hoochie!

C.H. Admirand

#15. 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

#16. Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

#17. The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.

David Pietrusza

#18. Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.

George F. Will

#19. I cry at the end of every book.

Hunter Parrish

#20. 85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

Herbert Hoover

#22. JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.

David Pietrusza

#23. Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

Bob Ainsworth

#24. That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there.

Cub Swanson

#25. In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

Samantha Power