Paul Gosar Quotes

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader.

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

Real leaders do not follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

I just wish there were a few more leaders around the world with his foresight and his ability to run, … a virtual dictatorship in a benign way.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.

I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.

As the leadership team, we're taking bold and decisive action to evolve our organization and culture. This includes difficult steps, but they are necessary to position Microsoft for future growth and industry leadership.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Obama may be brilliant, but he's not a leader.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

There is a difference between the typical politician and the statesman. A typical politician is that person who tells people what people want to hear, while the statesman tells people what people need to know.

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.