Leadership Responsibility Quotes

If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame.

My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.

No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

Leadership involves not so much marching gloriously at the head of a parade as paying quietly for the parade permit and the cleanup afterward. Leading the world means acting not as its Commander-In-Chief but as its concierge.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

Lincoln owes a higher duty to the country…than to fritter away the priceless opportunities of the Presidency in listening to the appeals of competing office—hunters.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.

Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Leadership starts at the top.

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

The President was a responsibility beyond that of managing the government. He has a responsibility as a moral leader.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

When things don't go well they like to blame the Presidents, and that is one of the things that President's are paid for.

I’m going to keep on working to get rid of the sequester. You get up and do your jobs every day; let’s make sure Washington gets up and does its job. And what makes me frustrated is sometimes the very folks who say they stand with our military proudly are the same ones who are standing in the way of fixing the sequester. It’s important to look at deeds and not words.

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

Party leaders aren't responsible for every candidate's gaffe.

Management has no divine rights.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

You, sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.