Tim Scott Quotes

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

People don't like politicians.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

The word of the president is a national asset not to be trifled with.

The most basic building block of any successful government is, first and foremost, a moral authority over the people it leads.

Any politician can talk about resuscitating public trust.

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Preachers say, "Do as I say, not as I do." But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.

I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.