Michelle Obama Quotes

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

There is no school that teaches you how to run a state. You make mistakes, but you learn on the job.

Many have ruled well who could not perhaps define a Commonwealth.

The success of an elected official is doing what everyone knows needs to be done.

You can’t govern a country on charisma.

When you get into an airplane, you expect a pilot who knows how to fly. Running a Government is also an expertise.

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

[Jeb Bush] could, as I describe it, run the railroad.[John] Kasich could run the railroad. Hillary Clinton can run the railroad. Running the railroad is the most important thing. You have got 4 million employees; you've got to make the system work, and it doesn't work very well.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

This is a tough business to run for president.

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

Running for the presidency's not an IQ test.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

I am aware of the responsibility I am taking on as the chancellor. Things have developed very quickly for me in recent years, but they didn't happen from one day to the next. I have more than six years of experience in government. I took the decision to run as a candidate very seriously. In May, I decided to change the Austrian People's Party and to start a broad-based movement aimed at changing this country for the better.

I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.