135 Movie Quotes about Bad Leaders (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

Updated: Nov 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about bad leaders, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

61 Because the boss is a penny-pinchin' old crab. That's why.

George O'Hanlon as George Jetson in The Jetsons

62 You are symptomatic of the lazy, unimaginative management which is driving this country on the rocks!

Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger in The Italian Job (1969)

63 It's not the lash they fear... it is my divine power.

Rodrigo Santoro as King Xerxes in 300

64 But... Now, excuse me, I have to say this. You are, all of you, amateurs. And international affairs should never be run by gentlemen amateurs.

Christopher Reeve as Congressman Jack Lewis in The Remains of the Day

65 He said, 'Look, when I'm talking to you, I am the president'. -And I said, 'You look more like a sack of _ in a cheap suit, sir'.

Clint Eastwood as Agent Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire

66 But he was a citizen! -'Citizen'... spoken like a schoolboy! So am I, but some citizens around here got more power than others.

Quote from Destination Freedom

67 I've called it 'An American Dilemma'... the dilemma is whether Americans are going toward democracy and freedom or backwards to colonial thinking!

Quote from Destination Freedom

68 After all, if our national leaders were elected on the basis of tricky slogans, brass bands and pretty girls, our country would be in a terrible mess, wouldn't it?

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

69 Politics is wonderful. I can use all my lowest, slurpiest tricks, but now they're legal. Oh, I should have been a politician years ago.

Burgess Meredith as The Penguin in Batman (1966)

70 Go on. You'd hang your own mother for a couple of lousy votes.

Jack Lemmon as Hildy Johnson in The Front Page (1974)

135 Movie Quotes about Bad Leaders (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

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