Elizabeth Dole Quotes

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

Leadership is influence.

I like control.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

… essentially lacking in the quality of leadership.

Polls make leadership impossible.

Headmasters have powers at their disposal which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.

Certainly I shall not be one of those who, having gained power, do not wish to use it.

The person who manages the state is me.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

Power has to do with whatever decisions men make about the arrangements under which they live and about the events which make up the history of their times.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

I never had a political power base.

Control is the source of strategic power.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

Taking power is fine. But what do you do when you are in power?

I absolutely will be putting my stamp on this government and my leadership.