Diosdado Macapagal Quotes

Power without abuse loses its charm.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Being a role model is a privilege.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Wisdom comes from experience. Handling the people's money is not a job for a politician. There's too much temptation. It might be good to let an elderly man handle your money. He's looking for the Golden Gate, not the Golden Calf.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

The fellow that has power is the one who uses it sparingly ... I had more power when I went into office than when I went out.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The ruler will be interrogated not only about his own unjust deeds but also about those of his staff

I'm privileged to occasionally stand on a table, and people listen to what I say, and in those moments, it's important to me that I have something to say and that I honor it.

We have to be responsible in what we say as leaders.

Hold onto power and you lose your moral compass.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

We cannot survive if we give corruption any chance. Corruption can only exist with an umbrella from the top.

We've got to start also holding people accountable, and we've got to reward people who succeed. But somehow in Washington today - and I'm afraid on Wall Street - greed is rewarded, excess is rewarded, and corruption - or certainly failure to carry out our responsibility is rewarded.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

I'm not going to say something I shouldn't. In that way, I was probably the perfect guy to play in New England.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.