Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance.

Mark Gorman

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

Marguerite Young

Don't blindly follow any leader.

Marguerite Young

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Marguerite Young

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Paul Ryan

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Paul Ryan

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

Paul Ryan

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

Paul Ryan

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

Paul Ryan

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Paul Ryan

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

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

Paul Ryan

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Paul Ryan

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Justin Amash

I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

Joseph Stalin

The art of leadership is a serious matter. One must not lag behind a movement, because to do so is to become isolated from the masses. But one must not rush ahead, for to rush ahead is to lose contact with the masses. He who wished to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts--against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead.

Mike Huckabee

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

Mike Huckabee

I want to be around people smart enough to know God created the heavens and the earth.

Mike Huckabee

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Mike Huckabee

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

Mike Huckabee

We have something more reliable than a poll that changes everyday.

Mike Huckabee

There's a lot of us who do not accept the culture of the bubbles.

Mike Huckabee

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

Mike Huckabee

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

Mike Huckabee

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

Mike Huckabee

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

Newt Gingrich

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.

Newt Gingrich

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Newt Gingrich

The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.

Newt Gingrich

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Nhat Hanh

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.