Famous Quotes

"When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point."

Cathy McMorris on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

• "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

  Henry Ford on Leadership

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

• "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

  Nelson Mandela on Leadership

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

  Lao Tzu on Leadership

• "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

  Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by Cathy McMorris

• "Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

• "Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions."

• "Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity."

• "My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe."

• "I do see women voters shifting to the Republican Party and doing so significantly. And the issue that's doing this is the fear the federal government will prevail in making the Affordable Health Care Act permanent law and how that will hurt small businesses."