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I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
– George W. Bush
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
– Vernon Jordan
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
– Lee Iacocca
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I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
– Francis Maude
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I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
– Paul Wellstone
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I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
– Bob Ehrlich
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
– E. P. Thompson
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
– Harriet Harman
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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
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
– Yitzhak Shamir
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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
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I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.
– Joe Miller
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I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.
– Mario Monti
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I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
– Ernst Zundel
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I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.
– Eric Massa
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I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.
– Kristi Noem
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I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
– Dee Dee Myers
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I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
– Michael D. Higgins
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I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
– Alan Autry
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How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
– David Joseph Schwartz
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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
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Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
– James Cash Penney
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History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.
– Preet Bharara
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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
– James Stockdale
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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
– Sun Tzu
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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
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Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
– Steve Ballmer
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From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
– Virginia Foxx
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France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
– Francois Hollande
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For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.
– Scott Brown
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For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.
– John Garamendi
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Example is leadership.
– Albert Schweitzer
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
– Thomas Szasz
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Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
– Jimmy Carter
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Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
– Julia Stiles
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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
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
– Kamala Harris
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
– Barbara Sher
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Different times need different types of leadership.
– Park Geun-hye
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Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.
– Helle Thorning-Schmidt
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Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.
– Jeff Miller
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Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
– Li Peng
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Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
– Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
– Gloria Steinem
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
– Malcolm Turnbull
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Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
– Mitt Romney
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By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
– James Forrestal
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But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
– Martin McGuinness
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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
– Chris Patten
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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
– Andy Hertzfeld
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
– Madeleine Albright
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But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
– Peter King
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Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
– Frank Gaffney
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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
– Louis Farrakhan
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Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
– Tom Daschle
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Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
– Christie Hefner
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
– John P. Kotter
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
– W. Clement Stone
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Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
– Janos Kadar
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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
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
– Gerry Adams
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
– Olympia Snowe
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At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
– Ellen Tauscher
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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
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As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
– Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.
– Michelle Bachelet
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Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
– Eric Massa
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And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership and you're part of that leadership.
– Don Nickles
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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
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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
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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
– H. Rap Brown
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Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
– Frederick Reines
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
– Jim Leach
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All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
– Thomas E. Mann
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Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
– Cofer Black
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Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
– Harriet Harman
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A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
– Bob Graham
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
– John Updike
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
– Chinua Achebe
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The United States has a central leadership role. No where is it more important than in meeting the region's core challenge: the Arab-Israeli conflict. This cycle of violence remains the key barrier to stability and progress in my region. It has bred global anger and extremist violence.
– King Abdullah II
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Teamwork is no accident.It is the by-product of good leadership.
– John Adair
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Packing the Ethics Committee with DeLay loyalists further immunizes the Republican congressional leadership not just from the Democrats but also from democracy.
– Chris Bell
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As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.
– John Bolton
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Leadership in the democratic army means firmness, not harshness; understanding, not weakness; justice, not license; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.
– Omar N. Bradley
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I believe we need a new kind of leadership, a leadership that puts the people front and center, not the president.
– Bill Bradley
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
– George W. Bush
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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
– James MacGregor Burns
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The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
– James MacGregor Burns
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America is providing the kind of leadership that the world respects and the world has come to understand; that is what America stands for.
– Saxby Chambliss
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Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others.
– David Cooper
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
– Stephen Covey
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The Walsh Scale [of leadership] factors in the ability to put together an organization from scratch, to utilize talent to the max, and most important, to give the impression that you're a genius.
– Lowell Cohn
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
– Bob Etheridge
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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The leadership blighted the hopes of my generation of priests, a small fact doubtless from their viewpoint. What right did we have to hope anyway? But in their rigidity, they created the climate of insensitivity... God forgive them for losing their nerve.
– Andrew Greeley
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I think tolerating a certain degree of failure-not because it's good for you but because it's a necessary part of growth-is a very important part of the message the leadership can give.
– Howard Gardner
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