Josh Fox Quotes

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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

[Richard Nixon was:] The greatest moral leader of the last third of this century.

There are a lot of smart people in politics and government, but character matters ... it is terribly important that the two be melded.

What would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty of self-deception, essential requisite for anyone wanting to guide others.

Leadership means setting a moral tone.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

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

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

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

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

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

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