Marine Le Pen Quotes

Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.

You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.

All the movements or crusades depend for their inception and early momentum on the personality of some individual man or woman. Someone must care tremendously and give unstintingly of themselves before an idea takes sufficient root in a number of people's minds to go forward without some tangible personality to give it interest.

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures.

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

There is little leadership or followership on the Hill.

Choose the politics of principle over the politics of personality.

The Presidency is not a showman’s job. You can’t make a Teddy Roosevelt out of me.

Institutions are more important than the individual leaders.

I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything of their intrinsic value to me, by seeing what low, paltry, personal motives and base machinery and dirty hands have helped to bring them about.

Ideas do not make a movement; they are themselves merely the product of concrete situations, the intellectual precipitate of particular conditions of life. Movements arise only from the immediate and practical necessities of social life and are never the result of purely abstract ideas. But they acquire their irresistible force and their inner certainty of victory only when they are vitalised by a great idea, which gives them life and intellectual content

For about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was [earlier] condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

I lead my party. He [John Major] follows his.

The civil rights movement is often described as having been led by a relatively small group of exceptional individuals. But in my view, the movement itself was the outcome of a great many ordinary individuals taking extraordinary action.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

Men do not obey him by virtue of tradition or statute, but because they believe in him.

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

Personality-wise, I'm much more suited to be in a band and part of an ensemble than I am to lead. I never have been comfortable with the leading thing.

When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality. But you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.

Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

Was Effenberg a leader because he projected presence or because he had a presence? There is a difference.

The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.