Wilfrid Laurier Quotes

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

Not parties, but principles.

People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

I'm a person who promotes the concept of accountability to a great extent, and I've spoken in the Parliament and reinforced the need for accountability.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.

I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

We must have a clean role model at the top. Clearly this has not been the case.

You cannot influence a political party to do right if you stick to it when it does wrong.

Organization, not machine. Get that. Organization, not machine.