Leader Selection Quotes

When I select a leader I look for a person with integrity, intelligence and ambition. If he doesn’t have integrity I hope he doesn’t have the other two either.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

If three come together let them pick a leader.

Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.

We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.

I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set a time limit for political reforms in Hong Kong. And in four years time, there won't be a strongman to name the General Secretary at the party congress. That means that the various factions will have to develop better rules for naming their leader. But there won't be a timeline for political reform.

That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.