Pope Francis Quotes

I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

When I see someone who has responsibilities, most of the time I can pinpoint that person because of the way he carries himself.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

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.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

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

I strongly believe in the principle of accountability and responsibility. It is the foundation of leadership.

All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

To govern is to chose.

Lack of accountability in any decision making structure is not tolerable.

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.

I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.

How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?

There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

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.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.