Jose Eduardo Dos Santos Quotes

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

Ministers do not function well when they are unsure of their authority or of their standing with the Leader [ the Prime Minister]

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.

I'm eternally grateful to fate and the citizens of Russia that they've trusted me to be the head of the Russian government.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

I trust the people.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

Bernard Baruch is the acting President of the United States.

In politics, loyalty is everything.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

The greatest virtue in a prince is to know his friends.