Leader Responsibility Quotes

Sometimes, leaders' failures can cost these young people's lives.

These [Hamas] leaders are making their people killed by others…. They should take care of the lives of their own people.

We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.

The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.

Much of a leader's responsibility in creating a positive, high-performance culture is setting the right tone and acting on it consistently. That day-to-day execution - the tenor and tone - really makes the difference. One deviation - one exasperating meeting - and the CEO legitimizes bad behavior.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

I have to do my work as party leader and that's what I'm concentrating on.

What I'm encouraging President Trump and the Cabinet and congressional leaders to do, is let's keep our promises. Let's do what we said we would do, and that's what each and every one of you can hold all of us accountable for.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

Political leaders, elected by the public and vested with the power to shape public life, owe it to citizens to set better standards regarding their use of money, and their conduct, both in and out of office.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

All politicians will have to change to be worthy of our people.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.

When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless.

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.

Especially when you're a leader, you have to do the things that aren't the popular choice. But that's fine, you have to be able to make those decisions, without a doubt.