Flawed Leadership Quotes

What to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges—they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mc tells God right off. It is a very great pity we have to have Stuffed Shirts like that in key positions …. Don't see how a country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John Pershing, Eisenhower, Bradley and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons and McArthurs

The worst men often give the best advice.

Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.

True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to believe that presidents manage to rise above the limitations that beset the rest of us.

We never going to have someone who's perfect [for President] We have to change our system so that it can operate with flawed people.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

There are no perfect politicians - just as there are no perfect pastors or voters. We are all sinners in need of a Savior.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that.

What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

Yeltsin was admirable but flawed, noble but tainted, but in his own negligent grandeur, he undermined his own real achievements - and accelerated their ruin.

There are no perfect leaders.

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.