Leaders Quotes

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

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.

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

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.

But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

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.

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

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.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

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?

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

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.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

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.

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.

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

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

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.

Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.