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We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
Author:
Boris Yeltsin
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Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
Author:
Peter Yarrow
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Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Author:
Sloan Wilson
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When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
Author:
Pat Williams
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Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
Author:
Bill Williams
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In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were.
Author:
Roger Wilkins
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When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Author:
H. Wells
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Author:
Sam Walton
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When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
Author:
Jacques Verges
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
Author:
Jean Vanier
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
Author:
Benjamin Tucker
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I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.
Author:
Strom Thurmond
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But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.
Author:
Emma Thompson
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But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.
Author:
Randall Terry
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
Author:
John Sweeney
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As long as these blood brothers are our leaders, and as long as your party officials are Jewish lackeys, you will be no threat to the big money men.
Author:
Julius Streicher
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Author:
Oliver Stone
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Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Author:
Oswald Spengler
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If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
Author:
George Soros
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The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously.
Author:
DeForest Soaries
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And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.
Author:
John Snow
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Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
Author:
Frederick Smith
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When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
Author:
Elizabeth Smith
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In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
Author:
Mark Skousen
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Author:
Diogenes Sinope
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In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.
Author:
Peter Singer
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There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Author:
Alan Simpson
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Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
Author:
Ron Silver
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I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
Author:
Hugh Sidey
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Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
Author:
Chen Shui-bian
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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
Author:
Hu Shih
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It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.
Author:
Hun Sen
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Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Author:
Lance Secretan
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Author:
Lance Secretan
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Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other.
Author:
Richard Scott
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Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
Author:
Peter Schuyler
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Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
Author:
John Saul
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I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.
Author:
Fritz Sauckel
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The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Author:
Jeffrey Sachs
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The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
Author:
Marco Rubio
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And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
Author:
Lord Robertson
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There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
Author:
Adam Rickitt
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As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.
Author:
Bill Richardson
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I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
Author:
Anne Rice
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
Author:
Jack Reed
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Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
Author:
John Reagan
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We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.
Author:
Sellapan Ramanathan
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I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
Author:
Ben Quayle
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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
Author:
Max Pree
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
Author:
Pete Pont
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My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.
Author:
David Plouffe
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Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Author:
Tom Peters
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Author:
Thomas Peters
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No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
Author:
Franz Papen
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We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
Author:
Michael Palin
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I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.
Author:
Michael Palin
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We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
Author:
Peter Pace
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But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
Author:
Amos Oz
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It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
Author:
Major Owens
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Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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Leaders grasp nettles.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
Author:
Christine O'Donnell
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Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
Author:
Barack Obama
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We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
Author:
Joshua Norton
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I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.
Author:
Leslie Nielsen
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ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
Author:
Don Nickles
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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
Author:
Grace Napolitano
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I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
Author:
Alva Myrdal
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And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
Author:
Brian Mulroney
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When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.
Author:
James Mooney
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Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.
Author:
John Moody
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Author:
Moliere
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
Author:
Zell Miller
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Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
Author:
Henry Miller
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There is no credible evidence of the current exceptional global warming trumpeted by the IPCC. The IPCC is no longer behaving as an investigative scientific organization or pretending to be one. Their leaders betrayed the trust of the world community.
Author:
Grant Miles
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Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.
Author:
Ken Mehlman
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Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
Author:
Kendrick Meek
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By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
Author:
Mitch McConnell
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In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'
Author:
Scott McClellan
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Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
Author:
John McCarthy
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We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.
Author:
Thabo Mbeki
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Author:
John Maxwell
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
Author:
Paul Martin
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Author:
Wilma Mankiller
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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
Author:
Wilma Mankiller
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I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
Author:
Ernest Mandel
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A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Author:
Jena Malone
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I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace.
Author:
Roger Mahony
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Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
Author:
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
Author:
Rosa Luxemburg
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Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
Author:
Yuan Lee
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Author:
Blaine Lee
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I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.
Author:
Rick Larsen
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
Author:
Walter Lang
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The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.
Author:
Nick Lampson
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Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.
Author:
Osama Laden
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Author:
Talib Kweli
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You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
Author:
Irving Kristol
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When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
Author:
Jonathan Kozol
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Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
Author:
John Kotter
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Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Author:
Allen Klein
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
Author:
Craig Kilborn
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One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
Author:
Ayatollah Khomeini
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I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Author:
Vanessa Kerry
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Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
Author:
Rosabeth Kanter
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Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
Author:
Rosabeth Kanter
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
Author:
June Jordan
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I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Author:
Mary Jones
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Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Author:
Jimmy Johnson
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Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Author:
Robert Jarvik
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
Author:
Valerie Jarrett
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I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Author:
Jesse Jackson
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Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.
Author:
Bobby Inman
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As we continue to make great progress in the war on terror, now more than ever, it is important that members of the international community stand-by and bolster the efforts of the emerging diplomatic leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author:
James Inhofe
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I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
Author:
Bill Hybels
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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
Author:
Arianna Huffington
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God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
Author:
Trevor Huddleston
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How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
Author:
Mike Huckabee
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It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
Author:
Chris Hollen
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Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
Author:
Tim Holden
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Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
Author:
Paul Hoffman
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Author:
Jack Herer
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While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
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Alcee Hastings
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Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
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Thomas Hardy
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I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.
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Sean Hannity
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That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so.
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Peter Hain
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I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.
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Peter Hain
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Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
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Che Guevara
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Andy Grove
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I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
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Tony Greig
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Good leaders must first become good servants.
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Robert Greenleaf
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There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
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Norman Granz
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We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.
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Lindsey Graham
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But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
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Herman Gorter
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This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
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Charlie Gonzalez
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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
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Seth Godin
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Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
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Rudy Giuliani
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It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
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Boutros Ghali
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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
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Charles Gaulle
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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Bill Gates
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Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
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John Gardner
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The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
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Bill Frist
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The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
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Paulo Freire
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Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
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Virginia Foxx
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Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
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Malcolm Forbes
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If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
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Mark Foley
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I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
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Louis Farrakhan
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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Oriana Fallaci
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The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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Robert. Ehrlich
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It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
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Jan Egeland
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Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
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Marian Edelman
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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Abba Eban
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I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
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Shirin Ebadi
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What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.
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Thelma Drake
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I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
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James Denton
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These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.
Author:
Jacques Delors
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We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
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Gray Davis
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So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
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Geena Davis
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We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
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Dave Davies
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Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.
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Samuel Dash
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When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
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Mitch Daniels
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I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.
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Richard Daley
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I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
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Richard Daley
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Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
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Phil Crosby
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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Walter Cronkite
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Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
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Stafford Cripps
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I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
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Kevin Costner
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Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.
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Jerry Costello
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Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
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John Conyers
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I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
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Kent Conrad
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Joseph Conrad
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I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.
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Thad Cochran
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The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
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Jim Clyburn
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Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
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Linda Chavez
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We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.
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Brandi Chastain
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I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
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Thomas Cech
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It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
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Neil Cavuto
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Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
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Chris Cannon
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Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.
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Jeb Bush
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We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
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George Bush
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Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
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James Burns
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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Ralph Bunche
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We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.
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Charlotte Bunch
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I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp.
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Sherrod Brown
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Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.
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Scott Brown
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I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.
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Peter Brimelow
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I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.
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John Breaux
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Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
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Bill Bradley
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Business leaders shape public opinion.
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Marvin Bower
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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
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Norman Borlaug
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.
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John Boehner
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House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust.
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John Boehner
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Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Author:
Ken Blanchard
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In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Author:
Ken Blanchard
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
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Tim Bishop
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Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions.
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Michael Beschloss
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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Warren Bennis
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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Warren Bennis
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Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
Author:
Ahmed Bella
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I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?
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Paul Begala
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I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.
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Leonard Baskin
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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Abu Bashir
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Abu Bashir
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Abu Bashir
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As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
Author:
Roy Barnes
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We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
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Michael Barnes
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Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
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Steve Ballmer
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All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders.
Author:
Steve Ballmer
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
Author:
Adam Baldwin
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Strong people don't need strong leaders.
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Ella Baker
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The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
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Robert Baden-Powell
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Author:
Irving Babbitt
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National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
Author:
Corazon Aquino
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The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
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Kofi Annan
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Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
Author:
Richard Allen
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A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
Author:
Richard Allen
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
Author:
Florence Allen
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I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.
Author:
Rodney Alexander
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I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
Author:
Rodney Alexander
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Author:
Madeleine Albright
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
Author:
Chinua Achebe
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Author:
Chinua Achebe
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Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
Author:
John Abizaid
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Grown men do not need leaders.
Author:
Edward Abbey
