Leadership Quotes

 

A leader is one who knows the way          goes the way and shows the way.|John C. Maxwell

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.|Alexander the Great

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.|Henry Ward Beecher

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.|Warren Bennis

When you can’t make them see the light   make them feel the heat.|Ronald Reagan

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.|Nelson Mandela

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.|Colin Powell

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing     you’re right.|Henry Ford

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.|Martin Luther King  Jr.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.|J. P. Morgan

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.|Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.|Bill Bradley

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame    a little less than his share of the credit.|Arnold H. Glasow

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.|Steve Jobs

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.|Thomas Sowell

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship he would keep it in port forever.|Thomas Aquinas

A leader is a dealer in hope.|Napoleon Bonaparte

Where there is no vision     there is no hope.|George Washington Carver

If a window of opportunity appears          don’t pull down the shade.|Tom Peters

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.|Max Lucado

When your values are clear to you making decisions becomes easier.|Roy E. Disney

The cautious seldom err.|Confucius

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.|Henry Kissinger

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.|Ray Kroc

Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility    not making excuses.|Mitt Romney

In fair weather prepare for foul.|Thomas Fuller

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.|Peter Drucker

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.|Jim Rohn

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.|Andrew Carnegie

Millions saw the apple fall  but Newton was the one who asked why.|Bernard Baruch

Today a reader          tomorrow a leader.|Margaret Fuller

Clarity affords focus.|Thomas Leonard

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.|W. Clement Stone

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.|David Joseph Schwartz

Example is leadership.|Albert Schweitzer

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.|Mary Kay Ash

If you want a quality            act as if you already had it.|William James

Strong convictions precede great actions.|James Freeman Clarke

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not      will be victorious.|Sun Tzu

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.|E. Joseph Cossman

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower          dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.|Nolan Bushnell

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.|Barbara Sher

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.|Henry Miller

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.|Casey Stengel

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep          than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.|Daniel Defoe

Without initiative     leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.|Bo Bennett

I look for what needs to be done. After all           that’s how the universe designs itself.|R. Buckminster Fuller

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.|Golda Meir

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.|J. Paul Getty

I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.|Don Shula

To succeed    one must be creative and persistent.|John H. Johnson

The sharp employ the sharp.|Douglas William Jerrold

Great companies in the way they work     start with great leaders.|Steve Ballmer

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.|Tom Hopkins

Leadership does not depend on being right.|Ivan Illich

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.|Andy Grove

If you want to get the most out of your men         give them a break! Don’t make them work completely in the dark. If you do           they won’t do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend  they’ll work like mad.|Chesty Puller

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.|Ken Olsen

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.|Michel de Montaigne

One must be convinced to convince         to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.|Stefan Zweig

Leaders grasp nettles.|David Ogilvy

Lead   follow            or get out of the way.|Laurence J. Peter

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.|Phil Crosby

I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.|Newt Gingrich

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.|Cyril Falls

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them.|John C. Maxwell

Get the best people and train them well.|Scott McNealy

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.|Charles de Gaulle

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.|Vladimir Horowitz

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline carrying it out.|Stephen Covey

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.|Jim Rohn

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.|John C. Maxwell

Go as far as you can see; when you get there       you’ll be able to see farther.|J. P. Morgan

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.|Steve Jobs

Don’t find fault         find a remedy.|Henry Ford

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads        and the boss drives.|Theodore Roosevelt

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.|Tom Peters

High expectations are the key to everything.|Sam Walton

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.|Napoleon Bonaparte

The first man gets the oyster          the second man gets the shell.|Andrew Carnegie

If you care enough for a result       you will most certainly attain it.|William James

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.|Peter Drucker

When placed in command   take charge.|Norman Schwarzkopf

You’re only as good as the people you hire.|Ray Kroc

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.|Harold S. Geneen

If you command wisely       you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.|Thomas Fuller

It is     after all          the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.|Henry Kissinger

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.|W. Clement Stone

Leadership is influence.|John C. Maxwell

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.|Barbara Sher

Be the chief but never the lord.|Lao Tzu

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.|Peter Drucker

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.|Major Owens

You have to think anyway  so why not think big?|Donald Trump

Leadership is not about the next election it’s about the next generation.|Simon Sinek

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.|Jon Taffer

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.|Harvey S. Firestone

The key to successful leadership today is influence       not Ken Blanchardity.|Ken Blanchard

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.|Mwai Kibaki

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry          creativity      entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.|A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Leadership is having a compelling vision a comprehensive plan         relentless implementation  and talented people working together.|Alan Mulally

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences and the future is integration. We all as a people         as citizens     as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.|Atifete Jahjaga

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders   not more followers.|Ralph Nader

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.|Barack Obama

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do          to achieve what they want to achieve.|Tom Landry

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.|John Naisbitt

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity      but to elicit it            for the greatness is already there.|James Buchanan

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity     but to elicit it            for the greatness is already there.|John Buchan

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character     leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.|Myles Munroe

A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety         and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.|Mark Goulston

Empowerment isn’t a buzzword among leadership gurus. It’s a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training           tools  resources      and guidance to succeed.|John Rampton

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.|J. Donald Walters

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth        you are a great leader.|Indra Nooyi

The world needs new leadership   but the new leadership is about working together.|Jack Ma

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.|Bertolt Brecht

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role – some people can do it            and some people can’t.|Kyrie Irving

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.|Ben Carson

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.|Carly Fiorina

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue        higher profitability greater capital velocity          and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.|Jeff Bezos

God will never direct us to be prideful     arrogant and unforgiving   immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.|Charles Stanley

Leadership is intangible      and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.|Omar N. Bradley

A leader is one who out of madness or goodness           volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish       hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.|John Updike

Practice self-awareness       self-evaluation         and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners – language  behavior       and actions – are measured against our values and principles  we are able to more easily embody the philosophy  leadership is a matter of how to be           not how to do.|Frances Hesselbein

No matter how good you think you are as a leader         my goodness the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better – because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.|Jim Yong Kim

Character matters; leadership descends from character.|Rush Limbaugh

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.|Faye Wattleton

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members         has transparency and integrity  and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.|Philip Zimbardo

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.|Theodore Hesburgh

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.|Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.|Russel Honore

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind           heart  and spirit.|Chip Conley

To me leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve – and to do that with a purpose.|Christine Lagarde

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters     the ethical constraints that this research requires.|Ron Kind

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years      I haven’t had that fear.|Kobe Bryant

Education is the mother of leadership.|Wendell Willkie

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.|Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it’s about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.|Robin S. Sharma

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful. I don’t think you should be vulnerable every day           but there are moments where you’ve got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are  and not be afraid of it.|Howard Schultz

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.|Jackie Stewart

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.|Rosa Luxemburg

What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very    very important part of leadership.|Bob Iger

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry       it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.|Sandra Day O’Connor

Grades don’t measure tenacity       courage         leadership     guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of Thomas J. Stanleyity should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.|Thomas J. Stanley

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence leadership is about persuasion  presentation and people skills.|Shiv Khera

Everything rises and falls on leadership.|John C. Maxwell

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time  we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.|Andy Stanley

America is stronger because of President Obama’s leadership  and I’m better because of his friendship.|Hillary Clinton

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.|Lee Iacocca

I’ve always maintained – a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership          it is not about me.|Gautam Gambhir

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.|Dianne Feinstein

Leadership is about stepping up when it’s the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we’re all on the same page.|Robert Kraft

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.|Jennifer Granholm

Taking on a leadership role doesn’t mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.|Jacinda Ardern

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.|Conrad Burns

If I were not African I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership  they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.|John Kennedy

There’s no doubt West Point impacted who I am… It has an enormous emphasis      not only on military aspects        but character development. Whether it’s the honor code           or the interactions you have        both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership     every place you are is a character test.|Mike Pompeo

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.|Marian Anderson

As a woman leader  I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman      I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother.|Benazir Bhutto

It is not about gender           it is about experience         leadership     and vision.|Angela Ahrendts

In our system leadership is by consent     not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.|Donald Rumsfeld

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.|N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day  but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.|Leymah Gbowee

A functioning           robust democracy requires a healthy educated   participatory followership and an educated   morally grounded leadership.|Chinua Achebe

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity      and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.|William Pollard

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.|Jaggi Vasudev

Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.|Justin Trudeau

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness   with sacrifice           and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.|Joyce Banda

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.|Pete Hoekstra

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It’s made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.|Nancy Pelosi

Management’s job is to convey leadership’s message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings        but also by example.|Jeffrey Gitomer

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.|Alan Autry

The country needs leadership driven by the dictates of national security        not the ebb and flow of political fortunes.|Dominic Grieve

Leadership is being the best example you can be for your teammates. The guy that everybody can depend on on a nightly basis.|DeMarcus Cousins

When one shows good leadership good mentality and is a team-mate           all the others follow him            100 per cent.|Claude Makelele

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.|Kamala Harris

Leadership is service to others.|Denise Morrison

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw            demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people   to pave the way forward for them.|Daisaku Ikeda

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.|Carter G. Woodson

Constant        gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership          guidance       and coaching.|Danny Meyer

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.|Bono

There is nothing that Bitcoin can do which Ethereum can’t. While Ethereum is less battle-tested  it is moving faster has better leadership           and has more developer mindshare.|Fred Ehrsam

Whether we’re talking about leadership    teamwork      or client service       there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses        mistakes        and needs for help.|Patrick Lencioni

Putin’s Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war            rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.|John McCain

I’m committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party and I never make any presumptions on it.|Scott Morrison

U.S. leadership has been rooted not just in our own belief in American exceptionalism but in the faith of others around the world. By so wantonly discarding that principle the Trump Administration has done incredible harm to the families they have separated through the state-sponsored child abuse that has been carried out in our name.|Ben Rhodes

I look for my opportunities not trying to go outside of my genuine realm     because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.|Aaron Rodgers

Music is all about leadership and there ain’t really a lot of leaders.|Young Jeezy

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.|Jocko Willink

Turnaround or growth          it’s getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.|Anne M. Mulcahy

The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically – it’s also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.|Yogi Adityanath

Leadership is a way of thinking     a way of acting and most importantly     a way of communicating.|Simon Sinek

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.|Peter Drucker

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions         but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles to organizational structure to employee engagement         to customer service an marketplace.|Simon Mainwaring

I’m a pragmatist. I think      as a woman   you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal            you have to say yes to more things than men      you have to worry about things that men don’t have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership we can break stereotypes down. If you lead     you get to decide.|Sheryl Sandberg

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one       be without the strategy.|Norman Schwarzkopf

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices    let’s use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.|Pete Domenici

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership        but raising children isn’t. Hey    it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people’s needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.|Dee Dee Myers

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that       from top to bottom            everyone feels part of the team.|Frederick W. Smith

Well    I think that – I think leadership’s always been about two main things: imagination and courage.|Paul Keating

Bill Gates can’t control a high-level-energy dog  because his energy is very low      very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn’t see that as leadership.|Cesar Millan

We need leadership in this country           which will improve the lives of working families          the children         the elderly    the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.|Bernie Sanders

I believe in servant leadership       and the servant always asks           ‘Where am I needed most?’|Mike Pence

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.|Arnold Schwarzenegger

Managers have different leadership styles and ways to go about their business. But in the end it doesn’t matter if the manager is old-fashioned     old school or always looking towards the future.|Andre Villas-Boas

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.|Mike Krzyzewski

I am humbled            gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father’s leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important       it is a great step forward for America.|Martin Luther King III

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.|Jimmy Johnson

Leadership is IQ        it’s not skills.|Colin Cowherd

Leadership can’t be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed you can’t fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.|Junior Seau

Overall           the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.|Louis Farrakhan

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.|David M. Kelley

Leadership – mobilization toward a common goal.|Garry Wills

Deloitte University is really about leadership development. Our people love it!|Cathy Engelbert

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.|Erskine Bowles

What matters about people is their magnetic leadership their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps           and their passion – how they choose to package that is their prerogative.|Caroline Ghosn

For a homosexual     he’s one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he’s good at what he does. You know            he’s got leadership ability  and if these people here would listen to him       he would take ’em a long way. But anyway      me and Richard got to be pretty good friends – not in a homosexual way            that’s for sure.|Rudy Boesch

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.|Vance Packard

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught while leadership is experienced.|Rajeev Suri

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac    and particularly Fannie Mae          under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.|Maxine Waters

I think the greater responsibility    in terms of morality is where leadership begins.|Norman Lear

My life path number is 7. One of the qualities is leadership. If I’m not being a leader          I’m not doing what I’m supposed to be doing.|NLE Choppa

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner        a CEO or a managing director. It’s one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.|Robin S. Sharma

Two different styles of leadership. LeBron          very encouraging     bringing everybody along  and Kobe   he’s testing you        seeing what you gonna give him. If he gonna get at you           he gonna scream at you            he gonna cuss          he gonna do whatever it is. He had his own way of leading guys as well. It’s two different sides. I’m just blessed to see both of them.|Jordan Clarkson

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.|Anne Campbell

Leadership is among other things the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.|George Will

For centuries America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let’s reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.|John Garamendi

If you’re running an engineering or finance company    all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere whether it’s an advertising company or whether you’re running a hospital.|Ken Robinson

In many ways            leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized           it can be incredibly powerful.|Dan Schulman

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.|Maurice Strong

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life        no matter what the project.|Bill Owens

I don’t think leadership demands ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision   which doesn’t demand unanimity.|Arthur Ochs Sulzberger      Jr.

Leadership is not about you; it’s about investing in the growth of others.|Ken Blanchard

I chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America’s blue-collar billionaire at the Republican National Convention because of his love for ordinary Americans and his kindness           generosity     and bold leadership qualities.|Jerry Falwell        Jr.

I’ve always voted Republican because America is exactly that a republic. You can’t expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.|Audrey Meadows

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top          they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.|Madeleine Albright

In the conversation about women in leadership  male voices are noticeably absent.|Adam Grant

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.|Howard Dean

Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government – it is very clear.|Li Shufu

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.|Doris Kearns Goodwin

At IBM           if we kept our same leadership for 36 years        we’d be bankrupt.|Scott Howell

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.|Ed Gillespie

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats    and leadership really involves responsibility.|Herb Kelleher

I don’t care tuppence whether I’m forced into a leadership position or not. I’d much sooner not.|E. P. Thompson

When poor people get involved in a long conflict          such as a strike or a civil rights drive       and the pressure increases each day     there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it       we see families crumble       leadership weaken  and hard workers grow tired.|Cesar Chavez

From the very first   it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass     and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?|W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people  who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.|Kim Jong-un

Now    if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades          we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.|Angela Davis

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.|Harvey Mackay

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership         he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.|Sidney Sheldon

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.|Margaret J. Wheatley

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.|Warren Bennis

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening      we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership – it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.|Richard Foster

In 2006 it was a horrible election year      and     you know      I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative  and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush’s campaign in Pennsylvania.|Rick Santorum

The Congress doesn’t have the leadership. What exactly is Rahul Gandhi doing is the question… sometimes he says something good           at times he makes a mess.|Uddhav Thackeray

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.|Robin S. Sharma

Every time you have to speak        you are auditioning for leadership.|James Humes

The cost of leadership is self-interest.|Simon Sinek

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next      regardless of the direction of our leadership.|Tom Graves

The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity; someone who knows the difference between good and bad.|Isaac Herzog

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.|Bill Kristol

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition         which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization’s mission.|Frances Hesselbein

Women account for about 70% of Africa’s food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.|Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you     not listen to what you say.|Andrew Whitworth

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world        to explore     to seek knowledge.|Gene Cernan

Leadership does matter.|Mark Rutte

Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.|Donald Rumsfeld

With King Abdullah’s leadership and his people’s trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.|Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

I don’t want to put off negative vibes to my teammates. That’s kind of my leadership mentality.|Taysom Hill

The problem is          is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.|Ed Markey

Very often     we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what’s unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.|Kumar Mangalam Birla

Democrats have no agenda no plan for the future          and no sense of leadership.|Jeff Miller

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.|Paul Wellstone

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader           you ought to treat leadership as a craft you ought to become a student of it          and you ought to work at it. And if you’re not willing to work at it       well    you get what you give.|Douglas Conant

The church wasn’t an organization in the first century. They weren’t writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.|Andy Stanley

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.|Rush Limbaugh

Not everybody is created equal      and it’s important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently   accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.|Anne M. Mulcahy

When I step back and look at what’s important to AMD            it’s about graphics leadership – visual computing leadership – as well as a strong computing experience. We have the capability to integrate those two together.|Lisa Su

The British people know that         given strong leadership      time   and a little bit of hope         the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.|Ronald Reagan

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.|Franz von Papen

I could always score goals. I loved that feeling of having your team look to you      that feeling of leadership.|Alex Morgan

I think leadership is not something you learn; it’s something you discover.|Myles Munroe

Jared Kushner is Ivanka Trump husband. Jared was instrumental in being kind of an overlay in kind of bringing Trump’s genius down to the all the different parts of leadership.|Brad Parscale

Well    I’ve ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I’ve led. But I think that’s part of leadership.|Robert M. Gates

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.|Beth Brooke

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.|George W. Bush

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts – the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now it’s almost impossible for just one person to do that.|Jacqueline Novogratz

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington’s failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.|Ed Case

In giving us children God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else’s sake – to abandon our own desires and put our child’s interests first. Yet            according to His perfect design     it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.|Charles Stanley

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership technological vision           frugality        and the desire to succeed.|Steve Blank

Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy  and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.|Ron Fournier

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.|Ron D. Burton

For any movement to gain momentum      it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses     and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement’s voice.|Adam Braun

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.|Denise Morrison

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly          some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.|Bob Graham

The captain at international level has to be someone who is one of the first names on the team sheet            someone who has the respect of the other players and someone who has good leadership qualities.|Jamie Carragher

Leadership is about doing the right thing  even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.|N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence      seeing how you react. If you’re in control       they’re in control.|Tom Landry

Since taking office   President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world – leadership defined   not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose        but by the security          opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.|John O. Brennan

I won the leadership of the Conservative Party as a pro-choice Conservative MP     one with a strong mandate.|Erin O’Toole

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that’s an issue that’s going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.|John Thune

Just for me     my leadership revolves around serving people. It’s the way I thought would be effective for my personality.|Monty Williams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.|Gerry Adams

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.|Carly Fiorina

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.|Justin Trudeau

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.|Julia Louis-Dreyfus

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.|James Dobson

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.|Bill Owens

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.|Jesse Jackson

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district        and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.|Aaron Schock

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.|Larry Bird

In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership       it is Labour’s duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.|Keir Starmer

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character     leadership     creativity      perseverance.|William Julius Wilson

Over the years           I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church      and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.|C. J. Mahaney

You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land    and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive         transparent   and innovative leadership.|Mwai Kibaki

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.|Carol Bellamy

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I           therefore            intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.|Barack Obama

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders    not more followers.|Ralph Nader

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties           I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me        but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important   that’s what leadership’s all about.|Iain Duncan Smith

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership        mission and team to grow and operate profitably.|Robert Kiyosaki

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who  by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience    could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.|James MacGregor Burns

I’m floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.|Haley Barbour

There is no finish line to leadership.|Julia Hartz

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault  not leadership.|Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is something I was born with.|Carmelo Anthony

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.|Zbigniew Brzezinski

Leadership is a matter of how to be – not how to do it.|Frances Hesselbein

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.|Jim Rohn

Leadership and punching above your weight doesn’t necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example            and helping other countries.|Clive Lewis

One of my beliefs about leadership is it’s not how many followers you have but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.|Robert Kraft

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers… Leaders followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.|Garry Wills

Leadership is a choice         not a position.|Stephen Covey

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks        eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.|Frederick Reines

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.|Isaiah Thomas

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.|Andy Stanley

There’s a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there’s so much angst across the country.|Rush Limbaugh

In the South   there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.|W. E. B. Du Bois

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.|Angela Davis

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced      leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.|Jocko Willink

If Ralph Nader runs President Bush is going to be re-elected  and if Ralph Nader doesn’t run      President Bush is going to be re-elected. We’re going to run on the president’s strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.|Ed Gillespie

Leadership is about vision and responsibility      not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.|Seth Berkley

An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality whatever it may be  and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.|Alan Mulally

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem         to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day to have hoped much from officers of a church.|Charles Williams

Talent? Overrated. Leadership? Underrated.|Colin Cowherd

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974        which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend  Kurt Campmeyer     when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact          I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.|John C. Maxwell

When President Obama was in the Senate            when he was a U.S. senator           he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.|Cathy McMorris Rodgers

There are certain skills that business people have that are – that are     in fact            helpful in – when it comes to being in political leadership.|Rick Santorum

It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1         400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.|Abdullah II of Jordan

Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.|Donald Rumsfeld

You’re born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead   but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position    and then there are things you can do to develop that.|Tony Dungy

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.|Keith Henson

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine’s democrat reformers           they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.|Bob Schaffer

I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.|Carson Wentz

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar      there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.|Julia Stiles

We’re trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That’s who we look to for leadership and change        for transformation. We’re awaiting the next J.F.K.         the next Martin Luther King      the next Gandhi       the next Nelson Mandela.|Paul Hawken

Leadership is an individual sport   one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction  energy           encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.|David Petraeus

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.|Malcolm Turnbull

Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006          I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her            and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.|Albio Sires

I’ve made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues that sort of stuff. And try to           in essence     look at what training they’re doing and say            ‘This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.’|Carl Weathers

Arthur Scargill’s leadership of the miners’ strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union      Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.|Jimmy Reid

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.|John Mott

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years            the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective – at best.|Peter Senge

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.|Earl Browder

At that time   the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone            including the IRA    to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.|Gerry Adams

We need leadership and we need it now.|Byron Dorgan

Actions          not words      are the ultimate results of leadership.|Bill Owens

Leadership is… to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.|Kevin Plank

In any leadership position   you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.|Biz Stone

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action   but it is also about guarding against mis-action.|Simon Sinek

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices through corrupt means       I think that’s detestable; we have to take action.|Jakaya Kikwete

We’re trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation’s health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.|Steven Burd

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.|Dylan Lauren

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.|Alan Dershowitz

The Vatican’s recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul’s leadership.|David Novak

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.|Bob Riley

When the world is in the midst of change when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable            this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they’re serving.|Chip Conley

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That’s the management style or leadership style I believe in           which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.|Lisa Su

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than   obviously     in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality         leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect         no question about it but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.|Ed Rendell

I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.|Bill Flores

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire           spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam     of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.|Barack Obama

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.|Rush Limbaugh

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.|Anita Borg

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.|Charles Edison

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.|Earl Monroe

Leadership is hard to train on.|Ben Horowitz

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.|Jesse Jackson

I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership – where you’re eating lunch         who you’re interacting with         making guys feel like you’re interested in what they’re doing. If it’s authentic        then it’s going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.|Aaron Rodgers

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don’t want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.|Irene Rosenfeld

Shouldn’t Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip  the number two man in their leadership?|Bill Kristol

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.|Robert Kiyosaki

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries         but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of ‘leadership’ among those countries.|Chiang Kai-shek

My best investment as cliched as this sounds    is the money I’ve spent developing myself          via books workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within      and to have a better career start by building a better you.|Robin S. Sharma

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.|John C. Maxwell

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.|Andy Stanley

I think for me or for anyone who plays the quarterback position         it’s almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman or wide receiver strong safety or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks      it’s automatically a default that you’re supposed to be a leader.|Cam Newton

Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you     or they don’t.|Sergio Marchionne

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds perspectives and ideas.|Denise Morrison

Beginning under the Roman Empire         intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages      who invented the first universities – in Paris       Oxford          Cambridge? The church.|Nancy Pearcey

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years            but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years we need proven leadership proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.|Rahm Emanuel

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.|Frederick W. Smith

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11     000 a year?|Bill Pascrell

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.|Alan Autry

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order but real power does not come from titles.|Robin S. Sharma

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles it’s important that they have the backing of men as well as women.|Adam Grant

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society            events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion       and not on the opinion of the masses.|Yitzhak Shamir

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home         in America’s factories and on the farms   in the cities and the country.|Bob Feller

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.|James Humes

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership    his innovation          not settling for mediocrity.|Howard Schultz

Helping other people develops your leadership skills    and people start to see you as a natural leader.|Doug McMillon

Some people feel      you make your case if they listen to you fine    if they don’t  that’s it. That’s not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.|Anthony Fauci

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.|Margaret J. Wheatley

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing  it’s more a business that’s out there and running riot   so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.|Yahoo Serious

As a vibrant force in civil society  women continue to press for their rights  equal participation in decision-making       and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.|Michelle Bachelet

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.|Frances Hesselbein

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.|Bob Iger

You can’t run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.|Justin Trudeau

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.|Kamala Harris

Dr. Sun Yat-sen        Father of the Republic        made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.|Chiang Kai-shek

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.|Peter T. King

I feel strongly about the need for diversity           and with good reason. I’m from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.|Denise Morrison

The BJP members and their leadership have realized that the Bahujan Samaj Party’s policies are not anti-upper caste.|Mayawati

Through the inspiration of Vaclav’s words           the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership      Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an Michael D. Higginsitarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.|Michael D. Higgins

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.|Bob Ehrlich

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters   independent voters – how do we get the independent voters back?|Henry Cuellar

We need to make sure we’re creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.|Alicia Garza

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.|Alan Autry

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership        you’ll have a competitive team.|T. Boone Pickens

If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates’       then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.|Dee Hock

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.|Bob Ehrlich

I have disagreements with leadership       I have disagreements with the speaker     but I have those one-on-one.|Bill Flores

We need to restore U.S. leadership to a world order that is rules-based in order to protect our American dream here at home.|Joe Sestak

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America  re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.|Tom Vilsack

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we’re gunning for leadership.|Louis V. Gerstner         Jr.

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion   but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.|Shirley Chisholm

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership they’re quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe           without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.|Arthur Scargill

If there is such a thing as good leadership it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.|Ingvar Kamprad

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course           I don’t think they believe that. It’s just an argument that’s made when you can’t confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.|Ai Weiwei

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.|C. L. R. James

In fact the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership      vision and inspiration not seen since World War II        we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.|Adam Schiff

I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.|Deval Patrick

Good leadership is to know when to go    and you only succeed as a good leader if you’ve transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you’ve succeeded as leader.|Tony Fernandes

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned  each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.|Tom Ridge

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela’s leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker           but even stronger.|Klaus Schwab

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.|Condoleezza Rice

I think part of being a good leader is listening skills       and I think a big part of leadership is the ability to delegate.|Joe Maddon

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.|Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Women are problem solvers           and often we don’t get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who’s loud  obnoxious    chest-pounding. That’s not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.|Mazie Hirono

Tamil Nadu needs a leader a leadership. I am coming to fill that vacuum.|Rajinikanth

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.|Tom Rooney

You should govern not by partisanship    but by leadership.|Kevin Faulconer

In a world of serious threats to the U.K. and to global stability where we see violence and conflict pulling people back into poverty   international terrorism        migration crises       children dying from preventable diseases and global environmental concerns on the rise      Britain’s leadership on the world stage is more important than ever.|Priti Patel

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand      I wanted to move on.|Warren Bennis

True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.|Lubna Olayan

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.|Lois Frankel

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech    character more than a claim            is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.|Louis Farrakhan

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.|Kofi Annan

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience     leadership and vision.|Angela Ahrendts

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor   it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft  broken dreams and broken policies.|Buzz Aldrin

Too often       advances in civil rights or women’s rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.|Mike Quigley

One of the topics I’m most passionate about is servant leadership – the greatest leaders recognize that they’re here to serve not to be served.|Ken Blanchard

One of the things you look for is leadership        and it comes in different forms. There’s vocal leaders            there’s quiet leaders there’s leaders that lead by example.|Barry Trotz

Xerox’s innovative technology and service offerings – delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model – continue to solidify our market leadership          driving consistently strong earnings performance.|Anne M. Mulcahy

True urgent leadership doesn’t drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.|John P. Kotter

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters        saying that    ‘My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.’|Nancy Pelosi

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.|Rahm Emanuel

By providing outstanding economic leadership  this country can wage its attack successfully – and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.|James Forrestal

In the military           I learned that ‘leadership’ means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough            important assignments.|Tulsi Gabbard

This is about systemic         institutional corruption      not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain’t going to happen.|Newt Gingrich

I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses          well-paying jobs      and American leadership in new industries           like clean energy and biotechnology.|William J. Clinton

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.|Cyril Falls

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.|John Dingell

A revolutionary party is      in its essence the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause            and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.|Kim Jong-un

All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.|Josh Groban

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.|John Abizaid

We’ve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We’re just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.|Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people’s lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company’s continued success and leadership in changing the world.|Angela Ahrendts

Washington doesn’t have just a spending problem          or just an entitlement problem      or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that           and the first three problems are solved.|Mark McKinnon

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.|Angela Davis

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership      which include attention to aesthetics and the environment  nurturing       affection       intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.|Deepak Chopra

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time         America was protected by huge oceans and      in practice    by the British navy. Today it’s different  and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.|Henry Kissinger

I attended Florida State University on an academic and leadership scholarship         changed my major from biology to broadcasting         and transferred to the University of South Carolina for my last two years.|Ainsley Earhardt

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society we’re going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.|Robert Wilson

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability       judgment and knowledge          but above all a passion for service.|Sonny Perdue

You can’t have force structure without proper training  without proper equipment without proper leadership      without proper funding to conduct exercises and perform maintenance.|Joseph Dunford

Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job         with short hours and summers off       the fact is that successful   dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and            in many cases          insufficient support from their leadership.|Andreas Schleicher

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.|Eric Hoffer

In a very real way     ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ‘ridiculously in charge            ‘ then you own whatever happens in a company  school           et cetera.|Henry Cloud

I think I can bring tremendous leadership.|Jared Goff

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.|Janos Kadar

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons          but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn’t isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.|Robert Reich

I don’t agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.|Harriet Harman

There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.|Madeleine M. Kunin

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you – sometimes consciously   mostly unconsciously.|Raymond Kelly

Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership    and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that      remarkably   it’s overcoming the facts.|Jeremy Grantham

In the past      the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s            in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies        the whole nation peered into the abyss           was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president        which began a national resurgence.|Paul Johnson

Leadership and management are not synonymous.|Travis Bradberry

If you don’t have the necessary inner balance      leadership can demolish you. Today        if you are a CEO by the time you are 35           you must have ulcers. By 45          you must have diabetes. By 55            you must have had a bypass. People say they have had three bypasses          as if it is a qualification.|Jaggi Vasudev

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.|Irwin Redlener

We need real leadership      Democrat      Republican and independent to stand up and say           we have to live within our means.|Tom Coburn

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.|Norman Lear

I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it          from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.|Julie Ertz

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.|Susan Faludi

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.|Madeleine M. Kunin

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness    immorality and materialism.|George W. Romney

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring         evaluating. It’s all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person           then you give that person the freedom            the Pierre Nantermeity       the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.|Pierre Nanterme

The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something     ideally their own businesses. If you can’t see a path for leadership within your own company          go blaze a trail of your own.|Safra A. Catz

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.|Pete du Pont

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.|Steve Ballmer

Actually         I don’t ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say      ‘What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?’ It just won’t happen again.|Harriet Harman

Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party    the General Staff of the revolution      is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.|Kim Jong-un

This – the leadership of the mayor is crucial        because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision    the energy     and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.|Marc Morial

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it   remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.|Tony Abbott

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.|Octavia E. Butler

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you’re a leader by the time you’re 12 years old or you never will be.|Jon Taffer

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers     because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.|Sheri L. Dew

Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.|Woodrow Wilson

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy   knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.|Romesh Wadhwani

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.|Jon Kyl

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders – those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay ‘transactional’ leaders   whose goals are more modest         as mere managers.|Joseph Nye

I wanted to be a veterinarian and go to school in Boston. It didn’t quite work out that way  and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome – and I didn’t realize it at the time          -but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities.|Sunita Williams

I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence – laws the NRA’s leadership has fought against relentlessly.|Lucy McBath

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.|Michelle Bachelet

I have always believed women have so many natural leadership qualities. They just need opportunities and access.|Aja Brown

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.|Virginia Foxx

Having served in the Nixon Administration        I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service       including law enforcement.|Frank Wolf

I am very bullish on India because of its people  its culture     and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.|Tim Cook

Because of the president’s leadership        every American will have access to affordable  quality health care.|Rahm Emanuel

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America’s greatness.|Paul Tsongas

One thing my dad’s always told me about leadership is when all hell’s breaking loose         everyone’s looking at you to see how you’re handling it. If you’re frantic and out of control      they’re going to be frantic and out of control. If you’re calm  cool and collected and doing the right things      they’ll follow you.|Ron Rivera

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.|Michael C. Burgess

It is time for new leadership           new direction           and new results in Washington     D.C.   and that is why I am running for United States Senate.|Ron Crumpton

As representatives    we are accountable first not to our party  not to our leadership           not to the chief executive         but just to our constituents.|Sara Gideon

Ray Lewis      I’ve grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity          his passion for the game   his love for the game           his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis      from leadership qualities   all that.|Manti Te’o

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.|Robert Teeter

Life isn’t easy            and leadership is harder still.|Walter Russell Mead

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.|Tom Lantos

Leadership desperately needs women.|Marilyn Ferguson

Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7        not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn’t something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.|Jackson Katz

Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid’s thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership life success   or earnings potential.|Nina Easton

PM Modi has provided visionary leadership with his focus on the welfare of the poor and inclusive nature taking along his whole team           including states        parties           all schools of thought            all sections of society.|Piyush Goyal

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.|Donald Evans

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don’t realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It’s important to have guys who have been there before.|David Robinson

Digitas is a company that’s very rapidly changing – the digital world changes every day. It’s important we hire people who are curious about what’s going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.|Laura Lang

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on       rather than to their supposed antagonisms.|Michael Pollan

Comrade Kim Jong Il           who was faithful to Comrade Kim Il Sung’s ideas and cause   led our revolution along the glorious road of victory       braving the severe trials and adversities of history by dint of his unique leadership of the Songun revolution.|Kim Jong-un

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction            take up challenges which other people cannot do.|Ajay Piramal

The FCC         under my leadership           will stand for the First Amendment.|Ajit Pai

Due to Modi ji’s leadership people’s participation in building a base for inclusive growth and a strong country became possible.|Yogi Adityanath

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy     because a boy is expected to lead so it doesn’t surprise or offend.|Sheryl Sandberg

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.|Philip Seymour Hoffman

In Germany   they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can’t talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.|David Whyte

I admire Modi’s leadership and his ideology.|Akkineni Nagarjuna

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way           including George Bush senior       Gerald Ford    and others including myself and Bill Clinton.|Jimmy Carter

For good or ill           I’m a person of leadership. I do my best. I don’t dodge responsibility.|Gerry Adams

Yes     America must do the right thing    but to provide moral leadership    America must do it in the right way        too.|David Cameron

Many kids in Central Virginia do not see leadership in Silicon Valley that looks like them – we can start turning that around by inspiring our students to reach for a career in any of the many U.S. industries that will rely on emerging technologies and STEM innovation in the years to come.|Abigail Spanberger

I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences           but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology    not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization  that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.|Sheryl Sandberg

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change   in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.|John P. Kotter

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.|Kamisese Mara

The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.|J. D. Vance

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.|Paul Keating

There’s no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman – everything is against you.|Abigail Disney

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.|David Miliband

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.|Kay Bailey Hutchison

Leadership is about being a servant first.|Allen West

Different times need different types of leadership.|Park Geun-hye

Europe is difficult to coordinate    and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics     but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.|Peer Steinbruck

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they’re born. Every leader I know who’s been highly effective has worked hard at it          and they’ve been students of it. The more you’re a student of leadership           the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you’re going to be.|Douglas Conant

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the ’70s behind.|Kim Campbell

Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things and he’s not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.|Paul Manafort

I am humble enough to understand there are many people who know much more than I do on many subjects          so I listen to them. Integrity is also critical to leadership          so I believe there must always be alignment between what you think      say     and do.|Ajay Piramal

We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership      only because they don’t want to seem too aggressive  too smart       unattractive  or too male.|Abigail Disney

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.|Mangosuthu Buthelezi

The women’s movement in Korea is a Juche-oriented movement        which was pioneered by the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and which followed the proud road of development under the leadership of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.|Kim Jong-un

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.|Robin S. Sharma

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.|Warren Bennis

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership what I look for first what I try to assess            is integrity.|Kenneth Chenault

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.|Daley Thompson

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.|Mitt Romney

I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world’s best studying the minute details of what makes a person great.|Robin S. Sharma

The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit           then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.|Noam Chomsky

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton’s ability to achieve team synergy.|Michael Bergdahl

I’m convinced the question of development is mainly an issue of governance and leadership.|Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have always believed that more stories of women in leadership roles need to be told and I am glad I could be a part of one such story.|Richa Chadha

Our world desperately needs real leadership.|Daniel Lubetzky

I believe we need new leadership to put the partisan gridlock behind us         and I promised my constituents I would vote for new leadership.|Conor Lamb

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.|Zainab Salbi

Joe Biden is a backwards thinker in a world craving forward-looking leadership.|Daniel Cameron

It’s not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.|Peter MacKay

The government       under my leadership           will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system   which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.|Ariel Sharon

Speaker Ryan’s vision for a confident America   both at home and abroad    reflects his thoughtful leadership.|Kenneth C. Griffin

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership.|Jessica Lange

We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence           the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people         of felons       and that means the NRA leadership.|Jerrold Nadler

We need to see kindness and we need to see empathy and compassion. That’s something we need to see in leadership as well.|Phil Dunster

People look for their leadership to lead.|Mick Cornett

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.|Neil Sheehan

My height doesn’t define my skill set. To be a great quarterback         you have to have great leadership      great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature – and I try to bring that on a daily basis.|Russell Wilson

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.|Howard Coble

Mike Hodge is someone I’ve counted on for strong        steady leadership from the very start of my union service and he has never failed to deliver.|Ken Howard

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.|Sebastian Pinera

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.|Henry Cloud

Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all’s going to plan     anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything’s falling apart?|Robin S. Sharma

I think having a visionary CEO is awesome         and visionary leadership is one thing       but you also need checks and balances on whether this company can withstand a very honest and critical look at itself.|Julia Hartz

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.|Lindsey Graham

I mean Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership  but on the other hand            she felt like a good soldier that he had to be the leader.|Patty Hearst

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.|Monica Crowley

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before   sometimes    it becomes entirely popular.|Martin O’Malley

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.|Patrick J. Kennedy

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.|Thomas Menino

Showing leadership doesn’t mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.|Robin S. Sharma

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.|Jan Schakowsky

Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.|Anna Maria Chavez

We are redefining what leadership looks like and pushing for every single person to be part of that conversation.|Michelle Wu

I parted ways with the Congress    a party that I served for so many years    because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.|Satpal Maharaj

I believe that in Europe       we have a collective leadership.|Mario Monti

I think the most important leadership lessons I’ve learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed Drew Gilpin Faustity and many different sorts of constituencies      all of whom have a stake in that institution.|Drew Gilpin Faust

It does make it very clear    you know      what can happen if you do have… the right people        the right skill mix            that are trained and they’re assembled in this team and they work together under the right leadership. You know      what a miracle can happen. And that’s what was the case of Apollo 13.|Fred Haise

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place          to fear not changing.|Louis V. Gerstner           Jr.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.|Bryant H. McGill

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.|Herbert Hoover

Real leadership is calm. Real leadership is steady in moments of crisis. It is not hysterical. It is not exploitive. It is not dishonest.|Brianna Keilar

While the radical left wants to dismantle  defund           and destroy  Republicans under President Trump’s leadership  want to rebuild        restore and renew.|Madison Cawthorn

You can’t consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken… It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.|Enrique Pena Nieto

Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that’s actually a good thing and it makes sense.|Andy Jassy

Military veterans have unique skills         experience    and qualifications that are invaluable to today’s workforce     including teamwork and leadership skills           the proven ability to learn quickly           a strong work ethic dedication    and the ability to work under pressure.|Tae Yoo

U.P. is a big state. I don’t have enough leadership experience for such a big state. I requested the party for two experienced associates to help me and work with me.|Yogi Adityanath

I think you need a leadership team that is absolutely ravenous to get at the truth.|Andy Jassy

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades     that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders   their teams and their organizations.|Henry Cloud

Leadership is always about change: it’s not about mobilising people to do what they’ve always done well to continue to do it well.|John P. Kotter

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.|Helene D. Gayle

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.|Margaret Heffernan

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.|Christie Hefner

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.|Peter Pace

When it comes to fighting for progress in Boston           there’s a long history of people in power trying to label advocacy and hard work as being political in order to avoid accountability and distract from community demands for better leadership.|Michelle Wu

There are very few good examples of effective   nurturing leadership that unlocks people’s potential or even enthusiasm.|Deepak Chopra

Lincoln’s leadership is based on a number of precepts   but my favorite one is that he acted in the name            and for the good      of the people.|Steven Spielberg

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence      not as constraints on our power.|Chuck Hagel

If we’re going to come together and make real progress to improve the lives of people here in Maine and across the country         then we need new leadership. Because after 24 years in Washington Sen. Collins has become part of that broken system    putting special interests and her political party first. And Mainers know it and feel it.|Sara Gideon

I’d like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement – I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.|Sheryl Sandberg

As long as we can establish the bona fides of the leadership of Boko Haram we are prepared as a government to discuss with them how to get the girls back. But we have not established any evidence of a credible leadership.|Muhammadu Buhari

It’s a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.|Karen Kain

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens           not as Democrats attacking the administration            but as citizens          whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?|Zbigniew Brzezinski

I’ll practice as good as I can            but I know that I play even better with the qualities I have – leadership      my ability to make something happen in games winning.|Tim Tebow

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.|W. Averell Harriman

If you aspire to senior leadership  you’re going to have to work hard. That doesn’t mean you have to give up everything.|Julie Sweet

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.|Irving Babbitt

One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily… Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned.|Ezra Taft Benson

Leadership is neither about you or me; it is about something that needs to be done. Leaders figure out how it can be made to happen and get ten or a million people to see that this is the way to do it.|Jaggi Vasudev

There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You’re serving people and submitting to God as best you can.|Richard Foster

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.|Martin McGuinness

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.|Jim Cooper

While President Obama assumes that at their core the Republican leadership team is just trying to do what’s best for America       Mitch McConnell and John Boehner assume that the president is cynically trying to secure his own reelection power and legacy.|Krystal Ball

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.|Nate Parker

So long as the global economy continues to recover      that remains Obama’s No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.|Thomas P.M. Barnett

Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there’s positive leadership        and there’s negative leadership.|Jeff Van Gundy

Despite the belief of many career bureaucrats that elected political leadership works for them       our system is built on the idea that the permanent bureaucracy       such as it exists        works for the elected leadership    which in turn works for and represents the American public.|Mollie Hemingway

So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership  why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?|Paul Ryan

It’s not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it      it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.|Fred Wilson

In one of my recent books  ‘The Success Principles      ‘ I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others  these are the fundamentals to success – and to great leadership.|Jack Canfield

There’s a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.|Mark V. Hurd

In this nation leadership is dollars.|Norman Lear

We have outstanding schools         world-class teaching and inspirational leadership across the country.|Nicky Morgan

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.|Terry Semel

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.|Lech Walesa

Denmark needs change       Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.|Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We do not need international help to stop corruption     we need strong Louisiana Leadership.|David Vitter

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.|Joe Lieberman

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.|Olympia Snowe

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement      we need to take action to shore up the system.|Kay Bailey Hutchison

Dr. King’s leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people        working together          have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.|Maria Cantwell

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.|Daniel Inouye

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race          now is the time to reclaim our Nation’s position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.|Dianne Feinstein

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas       announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.|Edward Kennedy

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.|Jeff Bingaman

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.|Kay Bailey Hutchison

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.|Horst Koehler

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.|Andrew Greeley

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.|Peter T. King

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.|Alexis Herman

We in the press         by our power            can actually undermine leadership.|Christiane Amanpour

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous         almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.|John Mott

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.|Neil Sheehan

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not  under the leadership of the National Socialist government       commit crimes.|Ernst Zundel

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.|Natan Sharansky

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work            thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.|Tim Bishop

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.|Don Nickles

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are    what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are         how much fun they have playing the game.|Roy Clark

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group   they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.|Mary Douglas

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.|Li Peng

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.|Michael Scheuer

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.|Robert Teeter

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.|Robert Teeter

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power            entitled to leadership.|Patricia Ireland

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular            frequent and mandatory basis       including the leadership positions.|Robert Shea

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills        they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities  loyalties        interests        and policies.|Thomas E. Mann

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church           which I know has helped cause this investigation by you      points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.|John Sherman Cooper

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources   but we are not.|Ron Kind

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong        principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.|Jim Ramstad

I’m not up on the Internet    but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something      but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say         ‘Yes    we are part of a world.’|Studs Terkel

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.|Zhang Ziyi

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism      Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.|Nguyen Cao Ky

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed            when it is needed.|Margaret J. Wheatley

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.|Margaret J. Wheatley

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.|Dennis Hastert

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.|Chris Patten

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.|David Herbert Donald

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.|Michael C. Burgess

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.|Vernon Jordan

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.|Wilson Greatbatch

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.|Francis Maude

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.|Kevin Rollins

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.|Leonard Boswell

Each one of us          and     indeed           all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions   views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria   and the search for solutions.|Ibrahim Babangida

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.|James Stockdale

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.|Sherrod Brown

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.|Sherrod Brown

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.|Andy Hertzfeld

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.|John Grierson

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring           and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.|Sherrod Brown

On the other hand     the waging of peace as a science  as an art        is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth       its steady progress   and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.|Fredrik Bajer

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.|Jose Serrano

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.|Rick Larsen

An old African leader says about leadership       he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.|H. Rap Brown

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.|Zbigniew Brzezinski

And I’d say one of the great lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of decades      from a management perspective    is that really when you come down to it  it really is all about people and all about leadership.|Steve Case

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.|Marty Meehan

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of Linda Vesterity. 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.|Linda Vester

The conduct of President Bush’s war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.|John Olver

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.|Cofer Black

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people        the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.|Dennis Cardoza

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.|Dennis Cardoza

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.|Ellen Tauscher

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.|Zach Wamp

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage            yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.|Kendrick Meek

Bipartisanship isn’t an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.|Tom Daschle

The art of leadership… consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.|Adolf Hitler

Leadership in today’s world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.|Hubert H. Humphrey

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.|Mark Udall

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle… There are    we know       negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.|Peter Pace

And this administration and this House leadership have said    quote-unquote         they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they’ve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.|Eric Massa

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.|Scott Brown

I believe that it is irresponsible      it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We’ve got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren’t left out in the cold.|Joe Miller

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.|Theodore C. Sorensen

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims    the overwhelming majority of Muslims          are loyal Americans.|Peter T. King

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.|Paul Ryan

One of the things about leadership is that you’ve got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you’ve got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.|Tim Pawlenty

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.|Herman Cain

The fact is      when it comes to economic leadership    the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn’t what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.|Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama’s leadership through the Recovery Act through investing in the automobile industry.|Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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.|Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Unfortunately           the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.|Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Aren’t we at the point where the closer we get to chaos the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.|Debbie Wasserman Schultz

You watch television and see what’s going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing’s going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.|Steve Wynn

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business         there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization  the requirements for leading that organization don’t grow vertically; they grow exponentially.|Indra Nooyi

Now    do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely        there has to be. But I don’t think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we’ve come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.|Chris Christie

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person’s life and teach them principles of real solid manhood   character       integrity and leadership     the more consistent you can be in the person’s life and teach them those things at a younger age         and then the better off they’ll be.|Allan Houston

France after the month of May       will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which on many subjects    has tended to take useful positions in our view.|Francois Hollande

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman  you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top         they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.|Madeleine Albright

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership      a health care bill that’s going to destroy this country     my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became – what it campaigned against.|Eric Massa

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.|Lisa Murkowski

The union is much more than me   and when you think the union is you and it’s not about who you represent        I think you’ve sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.|Andy Stern

I talked about the need for American leadership I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world         a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years     and needs a strong American anchor.|Condoleezza Rice

Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.|Mitt Romney

We’re in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.|Roger Goodell

We shouldn’t be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: ‘You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.’|Rob Portman

In addition to removing our democratically elected government          Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.|Ismail Haniyeh

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party’s leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.|Joe Donnelly

Hope and change? We’re not doing that anymore. They’re doing attack and blame. And so I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.|Paul Ryan

The secret to understanding me is  I’m not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid   refreshing leadership. And I’ve always tried to go with solutions. You know            I’ve always tried to say    here’s how we get our economy growing here’s why we get our debt under control. That’s what Mitt Romney is offering.|Paul Ryan

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics   to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership      we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.|Chris Christie

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great and he doesn’t confuse the presidency with celebrity or loftiness with leadership.|Artur Davis

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency  ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for       or any work at all. So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership     why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?|Paul Ryan

What’s missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell        forever shifting blame to the last administration is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago – isn’t it about time he assumed responsibility?|Paul Ryan

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly     and Barack Obama’s leadership is driving this business the United States of America         toward a fiscal cliff.|Chris Christie

I’ve been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women’s Caucus and vice-chair for several years         taking a leadership role in this women’s organization.|Gwen Moore

We have now under President Obama’s leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn’t happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go   but we are moving in the right direction.|Martin O’Malley

Whose leadership     whose judgment      whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?|Rahm Emanuel

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great and he doesn’t confuse the presidency with celebrity or loftiness with leadership.|Artur Davis

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.|Susan Rice

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey           and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That’s leadership.|Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them  yes     I think New Zealand’s had a leadership role in a lot of things.|Helen Clark

You know      rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership          honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.|Tom Vilsack

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both we will have to govern in a way – at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not    that deal with these long-term challenges.|John Thune

It’s really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process           supported by European countries at the same time.|William Hague

I made a commitment… both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.|Dalton McGuinty

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the ‘Today’ programme and item four on the news was: ‘The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.’ I lay there thinking that’s interesting       then I realised it was me.|George Osborne

President Obama chose politics over leadership. ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ have become bait-and-switch.|Lindsey Graham

So        President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don’t need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.|Mario Diaz-Balart

So I think democracy          in the long-term       in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership  will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.|Mario Monti

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country   and he has complete confidence in the American people.|Henry Bonilla

Where there is an absence of international political leadership civil society should step in to fill the gap      providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.|Daisaku Ikeda

If America wants to retain its position as a global power           its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.|David Suzuki

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That’s a harsh statement        but I believe it to be true.|Tony Campolo

I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband’s leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.|Lucy Powell

It’s not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon       but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the ‘Green New Deal.’ It’s a leadership we in Britain can provide and from which our economy can benefit.|Lucy Powell

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders – who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they’re the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China ‘opening up’ to the rest of the world.|David Miliband

With gridlock the norm       Congress’s approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.|Ron Fournier

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet    one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.|Preet Bharara

I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive            strong and consistent – important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch the antithesis of leadership.|Eliot Spitzer

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security       and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.|Frank Gaffney

We are watching industries crumble         Wall Street firms disappear           unemployment spike            and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton’s    or Abraham Lincoln’s?|Thomas Frank

Nixon was an awful president in many ways       including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America’s leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.|John Podhoretz

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not      with an eye on future opportunities          therein lies the danger.|Kgalema Motlanthe

The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.|Michael Gove

Labor  under their current leadership       want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into – they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.|Michael Gove

Leadership must be likeable           affable           cordial           and above all emotional. The fashion of Vicente del Bosqueitarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can’t be angry all day.|Vicente del Bosque

In Britain       you do your job. When you do an American TV show there is a sense of being one with the crew         and there is a leadership element  which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain        you just do it leave and say            ‘Thanks.’|Theo James

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us      but the folks across the way.|Anna Deavere Smith

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency     because if you don’t become efficient      you don’t run a business well            and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.|Steve Daines

To be elected president       you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you – a reason to hope – a reason to believe that under your leadership      America will be better.|Mike DeWine

I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route         so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear          did not know how to do my hair   all those things.|Dianna Agron

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won’t cross over. There is nobody        man or woman         who wants to be left out            and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.|Gary Ackerman

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that          its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.|Robert M. Gates

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time    metrics           and resources.|Russel Honore

In terms of the principles of politics         I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership      who has the management skills to help the country.|Yingluck Shinawatra

As a woman  my style defines my leadership. It’s a gentler      more compassionate approach. I consult           I listen and I compromise where it’s in the best interest of the citizens.|Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather  I saw opportunity to train  to motivate            to improve leadership – not to punish the individual.|Eric Shinseki

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.|Cristina Kirchner

Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he’s got. He’s got to solve Libya. He’s got to solve Afghanistan. He’s everywhere. And this nation   I don’t know why it’s not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.|Vicente Fox

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have           we are able to discover our leadership.|Vicente Fox

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance           and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance    and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.|Jim Leach

The bottom line is    I hear my donors     I hear our base out there     I hear the leadership. And we’re taking steps to make sure that we’re even more – how shall we say it – fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it’s time to run our campaigns.|Michael Steele

Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles – what baseball calls ‘make up’ and politics calls ‘character’ – the leadership  talent and maturity to add value to a venture.|Christine Pelosi

President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes    but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs     who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly          and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.|David Mixner

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid          the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.|Juan Williams

NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives           the poor        or anyone who didn’t fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated     white liberal-leaning           upper-income America.|Juan Williams

When I was growing up      we were taught in school that North Koreans     and especially the North Korean leadership    were all devils.|Park Chan-wook

It’s fair to characterise me as competitive and determined         but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.|Irene Rosenfeld

There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the ‘real         inner’ candidate. And          to be blunt    there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.|Jeff Greenfield

The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong        they are the persons taking most of the heat.|Leonard Slatkin

President Roosevelt’s leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America – with the freest  most dynamic economy the world had ever seen – was open for business.|John Hoeven

Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London’s leadership in the arts       and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National’s role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.|Lloyd Dorfman

Actions          such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month   spring from First Lady Michelle Obama’s leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.|Richard Carmona

We need fresh           new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.|Scott Howell

This obsession with leadership… It’s not neutral; it’s American this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it’s killing American companies.|Henry Mintzberg

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60        I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.|David Rubenstein

In the ’90s      there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.|Samantha Power

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by        in various ways        convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: ‘Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.’ Your opinions don’t really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.|Viggo Mortensen

We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that’s where the greatest leaders come from – from the people.|Katori Hall

Leadership is possible in all different ways         and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family       I expect them to set a great example for me        and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.|Steve Nash

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old    white male   out-of-touch out of ideas          technology averse   and living in the past.|Mark McKinnon

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche         where familiar rhetorical vehicles – decentralized Gary Wolfity          emergent leadership           empowered grass roots – create a ceaseless buzz.|Gary Wolf

I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn’t the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.|Margaret Heffernan

There is a science to managing high tech businesses      and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses         leadership is temporary. It’s constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.|Eric Schmidt

Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again  any time something went wrong         the leadership claims that it was never their fault.|George Ayittey

I don’t run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America – in Detroit parts of Wall Street etc. I run a not for profit. We’re a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers            we sell hope and leadership.|Nancy Lublin

Leadership is happening     but it’s not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look    you see these extraordinary           sparkling new initiatives that are under way.|Don Tapscott

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy   but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted          with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots  God willing  it will stumble          wither away and relinquish world leadership.|Osama bin Laden

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision  and they translate that to their people and to their counterparts in other countries. You can fulfill and achieve a great deal if you get along well as individuals         as people as persons.|Salman Khurshid

I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I’m still trying to decide but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan very fractured leadership we have in Texas.|Wendy Davis

When you’re in a leadership role   you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.|Joyce Meyer

Say what you will about the leadership of ‘SNL  ‘ they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don’t think that’s by accident.|Phil LaMarr

Lead yourself whenever your boss’ leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn’t praise what you do            praise yourself. When your boss doesn’t make you big make yourself big. Remember       if you have done your best      failure does not count.|Mario Teguh

Absolutely the United States should lead in space          for the survival of the United States. It’s inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership then we’ll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.|Buzz Aldrin

I’d like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency         capability and ambition        so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.|Heather Bresch

I don’t want to over generalize       but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building   effective listening and working in teams. That’s certainly been my leadership style        and I think it’s been very successful.|Margaret Hamburg

I am the wealthiest man       not just in Europe    but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia – I believe that is my greatest wealth.|Vladimir Putin

As I’ve progressed in my career     I’ve come to appreciate – and really value – the other attributes that define a company’s success beyond the P&L: great leadership long-term financial strength          ethical business practices    evolving business strategies          sound governance   powerful brands            values-based decision-making.|Ursula Burns

The problem is not Hamas  the problem is not people. The root of the problem is Islam itself as an idea            as an idea. And about Hamas as an organization           of course       the Hamas leadership            including my father they’re responsible; they’re responsible for all the violence that happened from the organization.|Mosab Hassan Yousef

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.|John Lasseter

I’ve got to tell you what       the soldier doesn’t fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him            okay  on his own whim. That’s not what military leadership is all about.|Norman Schwarzkopf

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world  to Africa       Europe          America and Asia. It’s a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that’s been assigned as the host city. We’ve been going to a different city every year.|Dikembe Mutombo

If you have small-government       traditional values    you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.|Monica Crowley

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership           it devolves into total chaos which in turn           produces unspeakable evils.|Monica Crowley

There’s the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal         that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.|Oliver North

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled as all Americans do when they’re born here        come to this country and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses    small businesses     high-tech      low-tech        the communities of faith    and the Republican leadership.|Grover Norquist

I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.|Margaret D. Nadauld

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School            in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law       in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.|John W. Rogers   Jr.

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned – the captain earns that role; it’s not because he’s the coach’s son. These are all things we know         but in today’s world it’s not a bad idea to remind ourselves.|James McNerney

A C.E.O.’s job is leadership           problem solving       and team building. I’ve done that my whole career.|Bruce Rauner

What’s increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership    and you’re relating it to your company   it is much easier to get people to become open.|Kenneth Chenault

When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House        that’s what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House that’s why we see the leader of Iran… continuing to build the nuclear reactors.|Danny Danon

The notion of ‘world leadership’ is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population     in which case India is on course to top the charts    overtaking China as the world’s most populous country by 2034?|Shashi Tharoor

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.|Mildred Dresselhaus

In an age when stagecraft   gauzy themes           and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership      Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were ‘in;’ ideology was ‘out.’|Sylvia Mathews Burwell

In politics      Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached instead of democracy          a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.|Noah Feldman

The Chinese public is deeply nationalist  which matters to China’s unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world’s largest economy            there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating.|Noah Feldman

The world is fortunate – for the time being           at least – that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America’s decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion        let alone flexing its muscles.|Martin Jacques

I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government         where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.|Wendy Davis

I’ve never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that’s not afraid of political consequence.|Wendy Davis

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost           not to my political party.|Matt Salmon

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So       categorically I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.|Chris Hadfield

The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation… They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.|Satpal Maharaj

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words    America’s seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.|Elliott Abrams

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini   it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region’s most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.|Wadah Khanfar