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 truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 ~
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
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 ~
Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
~By Michael Oxley ~
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
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 ~
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~
We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
~By David Vitter ~
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
~By Rosalyn S. Yalow ~
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 ~
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.
~By Daniel Inouye ~
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
~By Franz von Papen ~
I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
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 ~
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
~By Norman Lear ~
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
~By Faye Wattleton ~
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 ~
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.
~By Howard Coble ~
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
~By Janos Kadar ~
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
~By Gerry Adams ~
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 don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
~By George Soros ~
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
~By Angela Davis ~
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
~By Dee Hock ~
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 ~
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
~By Conrad Burns ~
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
~By Gary Wills ~
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
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 ~
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 ~
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
~By Bob Riley ~
I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.
~By Kim Campbell ~
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 ~
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 ~
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
~By Bill Kristol ~
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
~By Bo Bennett ~
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
~By Mary Douglas ~
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
~By Peter Drucker ~
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
~By James Dobson ~
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~
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 ~
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
~By Bob Etheridge ~
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
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 ~
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
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 ~
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.
~By John Dingell ~
When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
~By Gennaro Angiulo ~
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
~By Francis Maude ~
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
~By John Abizaid ~
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 ~
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 ~
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
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 ~
I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
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 ~
We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
~By Rick Larsen ~
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
~By Olympia Snowe ~
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 ~
I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.
~By Kay Bailey Hutchison ~
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
~By Jose Serrano ~
There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
~By Pete du Pont ~
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
~By Cyril Falls ~
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 ~
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
~By Robert Teeter ~
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
~By Ralph Nader ~
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
~By Peter King ~
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
~By Daley Thompson ~
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
~By Bill Owens ~
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