Lionel Jospin Quotes

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

Be a President. Don't try to be a lawyer.

It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

I want to transform state government. What it takes is a strong CEO type... a leader who can drive things.

When a president doesn't know the policy, it doesn't make for a very effective leader.

As president, you can't just say, 'I want this,' or, 'Do that.' A president has to lead the American people to where he wants to go, and the chief of staff needs to help him get it done.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

I don't want to be president if I have to win by outrage. I don't want to just win. I want to govern, and not just by executive order.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

Government should do a few things, and do them right

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

America is looking for a consistent leader.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.