Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Preserve the President's options. He may need them.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

When you're president, you can't vote present. You have to make a decision. Sometimes it's a split second decision. You don't have time to think about it. You've got to actually decide.

I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.

In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

The mistake that the Bush administration should admit to is not so much that they made the wrong choices. They made the right analysis; they made the right choices. But what they did wrong was the execution of those choices. That was wrong.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

I think it's one thing to be part of a very important group called the Senate of the United States and cast a vote. You're one of 100. I think it says even more to be a governor, where you ultimately have that political responsibility and accountability to succeed.

As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

Leadership is solving problems.

I understand why political leaders in the beginning want to be cheerleaders to generate optimism. But to admit that they didn't understand the depths of the problem afterwards, I found a little bit surprising.

That's the art of leadership. To make sure that what shouldn't happen, doesn't happen.

You politicians have got to look further ahead; you always got a Putter in your hands, when you ought to have a Driver.

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you’re still on top, not when you’re no longer in control of events.