Nawaz Sharif Quotes

It’s much easier to have an attitude … than a policy.

If we cannot keep secrets, it is impossible for our leaders to have the adequate information on which to base their policies.

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

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but it's the same skills.

The distinction between a statesman and a politician is that the former imposes his will and his ideas on his environment while the latter adopts himself to it.

Fotball strategy does not originate in a scrimmage. It is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Good organization does not necessarily mean it will produce good policy. But bad organization will almost never produce good policy.

Governing is about selecting.

Relying on luck … does not constitute a policy.

In our government we drive decisions either by leadership of by crises. If the leadership is not there, we rely on crises.

I will never, ever, ever change one thing I did with my policies at city hall.

That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

Time and again, players lose because they make rash decisions. Therefore, you always have to remind yourself - don't hurry. Embarking on a risky combination that cannot be calculated to the end is certainly not the right thing to do.

I'm really, really worried about the Trump team, and I want people on the team who I think are adults who have judgment and won't do anything stupid.

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

When you're in operations, the best thing you can do at the top level is get the strategy right. You have to get the big ideas right, you have to determine what is the policy, what is the level of effort you're willing to commit to it? And then you delegate to those who have to execute that strategy to the appropriate level. What's the appropriate level? It's the level where people are trained and equipped to take decisions so we move swiftly against the enemy.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.