The only real training for leadership is leadership.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles - people nearly always pick a problem their own size, and ignore or leave to others the bigger or smaller ones.

He’s suffering from Politician’s Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

I dreamt of worldly success once.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The truth of the matter is we have become more interested in designer jeans and break dancing than we are in obligations and responsibilities.

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

I can't write. I would love to. I don't really have an interest in it, to be honest. I'll leave that to my fiance.

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.