Famous quotes by Leaders

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn't swim"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I'm extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa, you are blamed when that happens"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"We would like to see you departing peacefully"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"For goodness sake, will they hear?, Will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"You must show the world that you abhor fighting"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Political work is the life-blood of all economic work"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Learn from the masses, and then teach them"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"All reactionaries are paper tigers"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

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