Bill Clinton Quotes

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

If a President doesn't make enemies, he just won't be a very good President, that's all.

I'm going to do what is best for the caucus.

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.

[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he'd made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn't want to say, "Well, that's what I've done and I'm sticking to it, and I don't give a damn." Which is what the other people in America would be like.

There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.

Presidents have to decide what their popularity is for. Lyndon Johnson probably understood best that political popularity is a wasting asset. You had to use it when you had it.

Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.

I'm telling you anybody is better than Narendra Modi because he won't listen to anybody.

When you lead, you have to lead from the front.

Especially when you're a leader, you have to do the things that aren't the popular choice. But that's fine, you have to be able to make those decisions, without a doubt.

We consistently allow politicians to get away with playing identity politics rather than demanding evidence of what they're going to do and how they're going to do it.

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

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

We've got to stop pandering and start leading.

You have to make some hard decisions when you're speaker.

I am very clear with people that I am willing and able to make tough choices, and I will do that.

It is about the American people. When something is not ready, it is not working, it is not right, then we owe it to them to do the right thing and say, 'Let's hold.'

Georgians have made their decision, and now it's my job to keep our state moving forward.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

The director can be a dictator, but it's not wise to be. You have to choose the days to be a dictator and the days to deal with diplomacy and democracy. Every great leader should know that, even a dictator. Tyrants get overthrown.