Ineffective Leadership Quotes

We've had some Presidents who were pretty lazy.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they shouldn't give away.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments.

When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization.

Do not conuse motion with progress. A rocking horse makes a creates a lot of motion but goes nowhere. We are facing a "rocking hourse Presidency".

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

Washington has become a place where good ideas come to die.

My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.

This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

If we permit ourselves to be ill served, to be served by corrupt and incompetent and inefficient men, then on our own head must the blame rest.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim to the top

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

Things go wrong in America.... What cowardice in government and Congress! They are afraid of conscription, of resolute financial steps, of attacks on slavery, of everything that is urgently necessary; they let everything loaf along as it will, and if the semblance of some measure finally gets through Congress, the honorable Lincoln so qualifies it that nothing at all is left of it any longer.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

We have government by the clueless, over a place they’ve never been, using means they don’t possess.

When I cannot get the President to read my reports, then its time to go.