Harry Reid Quotes on Leadership (7 Quotes)

We're almost there. We're not there. We still have some obstacles. The leader and I have spoken about them the last few hours. There's other pieces of legislation that may interfere. We have some amendments we have to vote on that are going to be hurtful to some people and not to others.

The majority leader should put his sword back in its sheath and let the Senate move forward on this nomination without idle threats,

Hours before he spoke, the Democrats already were pressing their own recovery plan and spin. Let's be clear about what Katrina was a failure of leadership, ... When floodwaters poured into America's Gulf Coast, America's government sat on its hands.

Let's be clear about what Katrina was a failure of leadership.

And most of us are. But the decent instincts that drive most Americans are scarce in certain precincts when opportunity knocks. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the leaders of the congressional Democrats, have been particularly knavish (and congressional Republicans particularly cowardly in confronting the partisan calumny). Mrs. Pelosi gave reporters a heroic (and unlikely) account of how she set the president straight in a private conversation with him. It's not clear whether the Secret Service was standing by lest she, like Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, threatened to punch him out. She called Mr. Bush oblivious, in denial, dangerous. ... Why didn't President Bush return immediately from his vacation

It's going to take some Republicans of good will to be courageous and break from their leadership. They're getting tremendous pressure, and I understand that. But we feel good.

The families in the Gulf don't need to hear a speech from me and, frankly, they don't need to hear another speech from the president, ... What they need is leadership.