Shamil Basayev Quotes

The more the government plans fail, the more the planners plan.

Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.

I am someone who facilitates the President’s ability to make tough decisions.

The people expect the President to be on top of everything.

Both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev have law degrees but they do not know what the rule of law means.

If you can’t bring the people with you, you lose the policy

The paradox of decentralization is that it requires strong central leadership to make it work.

I now know what to do; I know how decisions can be made. I know how you can drive ministers and their departments to actually make decisions and bring results.

The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.

Responsible politicians should never indulge in nostalgia - it is too much of a distraction at a time when a rapidly changing world throws up so many challenges, when we need to keep our wits about us.

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.

I was hired to make United better, and that's what we'll do.

As a company grows, things get stuck at the top. It can be a bottleneck.

Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions. The first managerial skill is, therefore, the making of effective decisions.

Congress needs to step up. Congress needs to do their job, and Congress needs to do their job now.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

These 13,000 release occurred on Hillary Clinton's watch. She had the power and the duty to stop it cold, and she decided she would not do it.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.