While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
~By Tom Peters ~
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
~By Jeb Bush ~
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
~By Alan Autry ~
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.
~By Rick Larsen ~
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
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 ~
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
~By Pope John Paul II ~
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
~By Debbie Wasserman Schultz ~
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
~By Marian Anderson ~
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
~By Jackie Stewart ~
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 ~
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
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 ~
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
~By Hu Shih ~
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
~By William Pollard ~
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
~By James Stockdale ~
There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
~By Pat Williams ~
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~By Norman Schwarzkopf ~
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
Leadership does not depend on being right.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'
~By Scott McClellan ~
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 ~
I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
~By Gray Davis ~
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.
~By Scott Brown ~
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
~By Michael Pollan ~
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Leadership must be established from the top down.
~By Sam Nunn ~
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 ~
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
~By Mitch Daniels ~
The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
~By June Jordan ~
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
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 ~
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
~By Mary Douglas ~
Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
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 ~
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
~By Jim Cooper ~
The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
~By Bill Frist ~
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
~By Max de Pree ~
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
~By Jan Egeland ~
While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
~By Tony Greig ~
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
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 ~
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 ~
In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
~By John J. Sweeney ~
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 ~
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
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 ~
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 am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.
~By Strom Thurmond ~
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
~By Bill Owens ~
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
~By Peter Drucker ~
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
~By Tom Lantos ~
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
~By Vernon Jordan ~
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
~By Vanessa Kerry ~
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
~By Walter Cronkite ~
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
~By Michael Palin ~
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 ~
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
~By James Humes ~
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
~By Linda Vester ~
At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
~By Donald Evans ~
When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
~By Joe Wilson ~
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By James Buchanan ~
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 ~
Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
~By Zach Wamp ~
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
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 ~
Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
~By Chinua Achebe ~
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
~By Anne Campbell ~
In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.
~By Peter Singer ~
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
~By Michael Palin ~
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