Leadership Quotes
“They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.”
“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
-- Pat Riley
“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.”
-- Irving Babbitt
“And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.”
-- Peter King