Michael Scheuer Quotes

Bush is an incompetent leader. As a matter of fact he is no leader at all.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

When it comes down to the devil in the detail of dealing with the issues... and making real change, Trump, you don't have it. You've never had it.

So, you know, I actually don't think it's going to be that hard to spread the message to people that their leadership - not alone John Cornyn, but including John Cornyn in a big way - is failing us.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I don't have a lot of respect for in particular one of the leaders. But that's OK. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Now you may do it badly, you may do it well, some people like you, some people hate you, all the rest of it - but you have got a real motivating life purpose. [on being Prime Minister

I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?

At the end of the day, my hat goes off to anybody trying to run for president, or trying to be president, because you're never going to please everybody, it's not possible.

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.

Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth: Vladimir Putin is much more of a leader than President Obama.

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

Hillary Clinton called President Assad a "reformer". She called Assad a "different kind of leader". There's now 400,000 now dead... think about that.

We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

When I founded the party in 1966, I had just turned 24.And each year, no, not each year, each day I live I've gained new experiences. Now the criticism is not to say the party did not play a positive part in those times, but, in order to be objective, we did not accomplish the things we set out to accomplish.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

The times in which we're currently living unfortunately, our great leader [George W. Bush] is such a disaster and the entire country is in disastrous shape because of him. It's very frightening, actually, to think that this country has become what it's become and that so many people voted for a man like that. It's terrifying.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.