Leadership Failure Quotes

No state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Tyranny, Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

Whether it is throwing people under the bus or writing a lie on the side of one: Britain deserves better than Boris Johnson.

Federal governments and even state governments within countries have basically been immobilized by conflicting interests, by conflicting views of what science is, and the inability to lead. They are immobilized because they don’t want to take tough votes and alienate half of the constituency.

He is a butcher, and is not fit to be at the head of an army.

We have many candidates, like in reality television, but we don't really have a leader.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

The Democrats cannot find Romney fingerprints on what's happening to this country. Every fingerprint is Barack Obama's, Joe Biden's, Nancy Pelosi's, Harry Reid's, Barney Frank's, you name it, Eric Holder.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes.

If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

Dumping Rockefeller from the ticket was the most cowardly thing I have ever done.

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

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

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

We are strong country with weak leadership.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.