Leadership Quotes

"I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too"

"I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind"

"Leadership demands that we make tough choices"

"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, Lawyer

"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, Journalist

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better"

Bill Bradley, Politician

"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, Activist

"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, Activist

"I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships"

Amos Oz, Writer

"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned"

Harold S. Geneen, Businessman

"I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"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, Politician

"It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems"

Pete Domenici, Politician

"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, Athlete

"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, Businessman

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"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, Activist

"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, Writer

"But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans"

Peter King, Politician

"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, Politician

"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, Public Servant

"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, Politician

"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, Journalist

"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, Scientist

"Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"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, Politician

"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"Most people associate command and control leadership with the military"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

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