Leadership Tenure Quotes

I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Only God who appointed me can remove me. Not the MDC, not the British. The MDC will never rule this country--never.

I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet.

I've always been of the view that two-term presidency rule is a pretty good one and CEOs shouldn't overstay their welcome.

For 60 years you gave chance to Shasaks, now I request you to give a Sevak 60 months. I say give me 60 months and we will give you a life of peace and happiness.

I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

If I do not stand for a third term the opposition will undermine all that I've achieved.

Running a magazine is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs every so often. Though there's no stated term limit, four or five years should be plenty of time to put your stamp on a publication.