Famous Quotes

"Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him."

John Podhoretz on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

• "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

  Henry Ford on Leadership

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

• "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

  Nelson Mandela on Leadership

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

  Lao Tzu on Leadership

• "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

  Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by John Podhoretz

• "Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else."

• "Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will."

• "Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change."

• "All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth."

• "It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job."