Confidence Quote by Dominic Cummings

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are…

— Margaret Thatcher

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

— Michael Lewis

Most elected officials cling to their ideological biases, despite the real-world facts that disprove their theories time and again. Most have no common sense,…

— Lawrence Kudlow

Those who depend fully on another person’s knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all…

— Joelle Charbonneau

There's a suspicion always about politicians. The suspicion level is really elevated and it just feels like people do not trust their institutions.

— Christopher Michael Cillizza

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence…

— Dixie Lee Ray

Leaders get things wrong. Of course they do. They have imperfect information. They face competing political pressures. Ultimately they are human.

— Barry Gardiner

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

— Nick Clegg

True leaders are not just competent at what they do; they make good decisions about what to do

— Melchor Lim

Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

— Zephyr Teachout

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

— Jack McDevitt