Leadership Quotes

"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

"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, Businessman

"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, Politician

"Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"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, Politician

"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, Statesman

"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, Politician

"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, Writer

"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, Statesman

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"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, Inventor

"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, Historian

"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"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 King, Politician

"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, Politician

"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 King, Politician

"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, Public Servant

"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, Politician

"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership"

Woodrow Wilson

"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, Diplomat

"We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"In the end, the success of any leader is measured by whether the team is better off because of her leadership"

Mary Barra, Businesswoman

"Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred"

Yousef Munayyer, Activist

"Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership"

Daley Thompson, Athlete

"We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded"

Neil Sheehan, Journalist

"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, Activist

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

Tom Daschle, Politician

"We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means"

Tom Coburn, Politician

"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 Raleigh Mott, Celebrity

"Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership"

Peter Pace

"It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed"

Kendrick Meek, Politician

"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership"

Faye Wattleton, Sociologist

"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, Author

"My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership"

James Dobson, Psychologist

"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, Politician

"Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising"

Terry Semel, Businessman

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