Luis Fortuno Quotes

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I do what I think is right.

People know that I'm going to do what's right.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

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

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

But our leaders of today have decided it's more important to be popular, to say and do what's easy, and say yes rather than to say no, when no is what is required.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

We were elected to lead and sometimes we just have to do the right thing.

You've got to do what's right, or what you think is right. And you've got to make tough decisions. And you've got to be willing to take on your friends when you disagree with them.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.