I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
— Tony Abbott
You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
— Tom Vilsack
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
— Tom Ridge
We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America.
— Tom Perez
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
— Tom Lantos
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
— Tom Hopkins
I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.
— Tom Graves
Unlike President Obama, I would say that I support the long-standing bipartisan post-war belief that American global strength and leadership secures our national-security interests, and it also promotes order and stability in the world. And it gives us immense influence in the world and deters our adversaries and reassures our allies.
— Tom Cotton
I think that women are often underestimated - our suggestions, our advice, our leadership style. I think one of the reasons that that happens is women are much less likely to blow their own horn and brag about everything that they've done.
— Tina Smith
One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
— Tim Pawlenty
This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
— Tim Bishop
So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
— Thomas J. Stanley
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
— Thomas Frank
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
— Thomas Aquinas
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore Hesburgh
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
— Terry Semel
President Obama, under your leadership, we do need guns to keep us safe.
— Tomi Lahren
Limbaugh has been warning us about a deep cultural rot in our intellectual class, an accelerating collapse of standards, and the institutions necessary to support and sustain limited government. Yet, the Beltway consultant class and the party leadership would not listen.
— Tom Tancredo
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
— Tom Peters
The first Friday of every month is what we call Numbers Day - it's the day that the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report. We have a ritual at the Labor Department - at 8 A.M., we gather around a table in my office, and the commissioner of labor statistics briefs me and the department's senior leadership on the numbers.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
— Tom Landry
Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.
— Tom Herman
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
— Tom Daschle
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
— Tom Coburn
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
— Timothy Noah
If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.
— Tim Kaine
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
— Thomas Szasz
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
— Thomas Menino
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
— Thomas Fuller
The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.
— Thomas E. Mann
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
Working together with our exceptional leadership team, our Ministry of Health was empowered to make smart investments that could unlock our potential by producing long-lasting health and economic benefits for all.
— Tedros Adhanom
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.
Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.
— Tom Rooney
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Under the leadership of President Obama and a whole host of partners, including nonprofits, foundations, and advocates, the Department of Labor has made historic investments in community colleges, apprenticeships, coding boot camps, and summer jobs.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.
I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.
I was fortunate to have served in leadership positions throughout my entire service in the Army. I was in my first unit for two or three months before deploying to Desert Storm. I immediate knew I was in the right place.
— Todd Wilcox
I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.
— Tim Tebow
I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.
— Tim Cook
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
— Thomas Sowell
Clarity affords focus.
— Thomas Leonard
In fair weather prepare for foul.
All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'
— Theo James
