Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
~By Val Kilmer ~
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
~By Mark Udall ~
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
~By C. L. R. James ~
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.
~By David Plouffe ~
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
~By Bill Owens ~
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
~By Paul Ryan ~
We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
~By Brian Mulroney ~
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.
~By Keith Henson ~
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
~By Tony Campolo ~
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
~By Tim Holden ~
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
~By Michael Burgess ~
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
~By Barack Obama ~
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
~By Bill Richardson ~
I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
~By Paulo Freire ~
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
~By Mike Johanns ~
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
~By John Grierson ~
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
~By Norman Schwarzkopf ~
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.
~By Mel Watt ~
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
~By Mark Warner ~
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
~By Sam Walton ~
How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.
~By Rick Perry ~
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
~By Mark Skousen ~
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
~By James Humes ~
Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
~By Daley Thompson ~
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.
~By Marcy Kaptur ~
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
~By William Pollard ~
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
~By Stephen Covey ~
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
~By Jim Cooper ~
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
~By Norman Lear ~
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.
~By John Patrick ~
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
~By George Soros ~
The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
~By Rodney Alexander ~
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
~By Marty Meehan ~
Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.
~By Eric Cantor ~
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
~By Bill Gates ~
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
~By Charles Edison ~
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.
~By Kelly Miller ~
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
~By Tom Daschle ~
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
~By Valentina Tereshkova ~
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
~By William Kirby ~
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
~By David Blunkett ~
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
~By Harvey S. Firestone ~
Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
~By Osama bin Laden ~
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
~By Major R. Owens ~
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
~By Mary Douglas ~
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
~By Don Nickles ~
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
~By Alan Autry ~
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
~By Ferdinand Marcos ~
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
~By Norman Lear ~
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
~By Ariel Sharon ~
Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
~By John H. Reagan ~
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
~By Larry Bird ~
Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
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