The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

-Beveridge,William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron
  In the Observer,15  Apr.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

-Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron
  Said on numerous occasions in the autumn.

   Ronald Reagan†wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

-O'Neill,Thomas P known as  'Tip'
  Man of the House.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practising leadershipöyou are practising followship.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  US TV interview, 5 Mar.

   A constant effort to keep a party together, without sacrificing either principle or the essentials of basic strategy, is the very stuff of political leadership. Macmillan was canonized for it.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  FinalTerm:The Labour Government1974^76.