Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.
~By Rodney Alexander ~
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
~By Howard Dean ~
I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
~By Chris Patten ~
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
~By Theodore Hesburgh ~
The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
~By Bill Frist ~
Example is leadership.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
~By Lance Secretan ~
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
~By Jim Rohn ~
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
~By Pete du Pont ~
Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
~By Seth Godin ~
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
~By Zell Miller ~
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 ~
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 ~
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
~By Michael Pollan ~
I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.
~By Kim Campbell ~
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
~By Chuck Hagel ~
As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
~By James Inhofe ~
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
~By Wilson Greatbatch ~
I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
~By Oliver Stone ~
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
~By Ron Silver ~
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
~By Andre Maurois ~
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
~By Peter King ~
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
~By William Pollard ~
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
~By Johnny Damon ~
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
~By Anita Borg ~
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
~By Mary Douglas ~
You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
~By Irving Kristol ~
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
~By Jimmy Johnson ~
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
~By Louis Gerstner ~
Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
~By Michael Beschloss ~
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
~By Cofer Black ~
We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
~By Charlotte Bunch ~
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
~By Li Peng ~
They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
~By Hans Kung ~
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
~By Tom Daschle ~
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 ~
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
~By Franz von Papen ~
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.
~By Alexis Herman ~
For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
~By Lord Robertson ~
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
~By Kofi Annan ~
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
~By Tom Peters ~
Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.
~By Kay Bailey Hutchison ~
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
~By John P. Kotter ~
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
~By Che Guevara ~
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
~By Ralph Bunche ~
Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
~By Pat Williams ~
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
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 ~
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
~By Joshua A. Norton ~
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
~By Dave Davies ~
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
~By Samuel Dash ~
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
~By Brooke Langton ~
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 ~
I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
~By Paul Martin ~
Grown men do not need leaders.
~By Edward Abbey ~
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
~By Robert Teeter ~
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
~By Henry Miller ~
One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
~By Ayatollah Khomeini ~
Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
~By Walter Russell Mead ~
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
~By Colin Powell ~
The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
~By Richard Grimes ~
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
~By Peter King ~
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
~By John Moody ~
Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
~By Franz von Papen ~
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
~By Horst Koehler ~
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
~By Bill Bradley ~
I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
~By Kristi Noem ~
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
~By Jena Malone ~
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
~By Jessica Lange ~
I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
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