c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
— Newt Gingrich
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
— George Soros
Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.
— Lisa Murkowski
Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.
— Robert M. Gates
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
— Adam Braun
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
— Joseph Nye
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
— Monica Crowley
I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
— Malala Yousafzai
When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.
— Chesley Sullenberger
There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
— Nick Saban
My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?
— Linda McMahon
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
— Atifete Jahjaga
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
— Henri Nouwen
Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.
— Tony Fernandes
Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
— Daisaku Ikeda
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
— Steve Nash
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
— Pete Hoekstra
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
— Aristotle Onassis
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
— Henry Kissinger
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
— Andy Grove
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Character matters leadership descends from character. 
— Rush Limbaugh
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
— Ron D. Burton
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
— David Herbert Donald
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.
— Leonard Boswell
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
— Sherrod Brown
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
Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.
— Chris Christie
Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
Leadership is about being a servant first.
— Allen West
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
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
— T. Boone Pickens
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
— Steve Daines
What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
— Vicente Fox
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.
— Chiang Kai-shek
At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
— Chip Conley
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
— Chip Conley
I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
— Sheryl Sandberg
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.
— Ken Robinson
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership it underscores the need for leadership. 
— Andy Stanley
Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.
— Richard Foster
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.
— Oliver North
We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.
— Jerrold Nadler
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.
— Jim Yong Kim
As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
— Jackie Speier
I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
— Andrew Luck
Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.
— Michael Ignatieff
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
— Jim Webb
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?
— Rick Perlstein
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
— Carl Paladino
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
— Martin O'Malley
In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
— Wendy Kopp
Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.
— Wendy Kopp
Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.
— Edward Johnson, III
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership. Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many.
— David Cameron
One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.
— Satya Nadella
Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced. 
— Ehud Barak
We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.
— John Fleming
If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.
— Marcia Fudge
People are starving for truth and leadership.
— Chris Gibson
Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems.
— Enda Kenny
I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just felt like Jon was on my side. I'll always be grateful to him for that. I just got the impression he wanted me to succeed, and then I wanted to succeed for him. I think that's good leadership.
— Rob Riggle
There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.
— Mark V. Hurd
I admire Modi's leadership and his ideology.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.
— Kim Jong-un
We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership.
— John T. Chambers
Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.
— Lewis Howes
Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
— David Cameron
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
— Ruth J. Simmons
Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
— Andy Stanley
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
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
— Ibrahim Babangida
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
— Angela Davis
In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.
— Henry Cloud
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
— Wendy Kopp
The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.
— Lynn Schusterman
I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'
— Donald Trump
The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's to have a strong national defense, it's to protect private property rights and it's to support American values. That's what the mission statement is. There's nothing in the mission statement about trying to hold leadership accountable.
— Bill Flores
The job of nation building, the job of nation leadership in a difficult, complex coalition has worked.
— Azim Premji
When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
— Joyce Meyer
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
— Gloria Steinem
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
— Paul Ryan
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
— Jesse Jackson
Comrade Kim Jong Il, who was faithful to Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideas and cause, led our revolution along the glorious road of victory, braving the severe trials and adversities of history by dint of his unique leadership of the Songun revolution.
— Kim Jong-un
We should steadily intensify the work of establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system to make the whole Party share ideology with the Party Central Committee, breathe the same breath as it, and keep pace with it.
— Kim Jong-un
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
— David Suzuki
The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
— Bryant H. McGill
Teach For America is working hard to be one significant source of the leadership we need.
— Wendy Kopp
If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.
— Sherrod Brown
I could always score goals. I loved that feeling of having your team look to you, that feeling of leadership.
— Alex Morgan
We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
— Lech Walesa
A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.
— Bruce Rauner
You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.
— Tony Dungy
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
— George Will
The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.
— Kellyanne Conway
In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush's campaign in Pennsylvania.
— Rick Santorum
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
— Young Jeezy
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
— Ed Gillespie
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
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
— Norman Lear
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
— Dianne Feinstein
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq.
— Noam Chomsky
America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
— Hillary Clinton
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
— Barack Obama
I believe that people of faith by and large have a great interest in the institution of family and that a family is a great place to learn leadership skills. I'm sure I benefited by having a mom and mad, both of whom were actively involved in the community and in various enterprises.
— Mitt Romney
My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.
— Mitt Romney
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
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
— Rush Limbaugh
There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.
— Rush Limbaugh
Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
— Rush Limbaugh
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
— Marco Rubio
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
— Marco Rubio
Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.
— Bernie Sanders
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
— Elliott Abrams
The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
— Ted Cruz
One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price it must be earned. 
— Ezra Taft Benson
The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.
— Buzz Aldrin
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
— Steven Spielberg
I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.
— Andy Serkis
I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'
— Rob Lowe
So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
— Paul Ryan
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
— Paul Ryan
Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
— Paul Ryan
Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
— Paul Ryan
What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
— Paul Ryan
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
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
— Timothy Noah
We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.
— Robert Kennedy
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
— Nancy Gibbs
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much. 
— Newt Gingrich
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.
— Barton Gellman
Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.
— Mark McKinnon
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
— Mark McKinnon
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.
— Mark McKinnon
Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
— Charles Kennedy
I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.
— Tom Cotton
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
— Michael Gove
I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.
— Tim Tebow
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
— Michael Pollan
We know that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has some very dangerous, very important leaders who are tied directly to the top leadership of al Qaeda central, including a man who was formerly Osama bin Laden's secretary.
— Richard Engel
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
— John Lewis
I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
— Sam Hunt
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
As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.
— Brad Feld
Stress on fast growing companies comes from a lot of different places. The one that is often the largest, and creates the most second-order issues, is the composition of the leadership team. More specifically, it's specific people on the leadership who don't have the scale experience their role requires at a particular moment in time.
— Brad Feld
I'm a venture capitalist. I like to say my job is to help and support entrepreneurs. I can play a leadership role, but my organization can't be the leader.
— Brad Feld
There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
— Mo Ibrahim
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.
— Mo Ibrahim
We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
— Martin O'Malley
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
— Bono
The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.
— Robert Reich
Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?
— Robert Dallek
Success in past U.S. conflicts has not been strictly the result of military leadership but rather the judgment of the president in choosing generals and setting broad strategy.
— Robert Dallek
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.
— Robert Dallek
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
— Jesse Jackson
The women's movement in Korea is a Juche-oriented movement, which was pioneered by the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and which followed the proud road of development under the leadership of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
— Kim Jong-un
All the organizations and officials of Chongryon, regarding this unity as the great foundation of the movement of Koreans in Japan, should rally themselves around the central leadership with one mind and purpose, and accomplish its patriotic cause, which was pioneered with comradely unity, by dint of comradeship.
— Kim Jong-un
Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.
— Simon Mainwaring
In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.
— David Petraeus
You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
— David Petraeus
When I was commander of Central Command, obviously we were very concerned about the developments in Yemen, the developments in Somalia and elsewhere, in Africa and so forth. But the al Qaeda senior leadership is under unprecedented pressure.
— David Petraeus
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
— Eric Hoffer
Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team.
— George Takei
It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
— Alan Dershowitz
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
— Bill Dedman
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
— Thomas Fuller
When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
— George Packer
Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
— George Packer
Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
— John Ortberg
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
I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.
— Michael Bloomberg
By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.
— Murray Rothbard
I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership who sees the greatness of this country and who believes that, once again, we can be one nation under God.
— Mike Huckabee
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
— Martin McGuinness
Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.
— Travis Bradberry
It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.
— Travis Bradberry
Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.
— Travis Bradberry
Leadership and management are not synonymous.
— Travis Bradberry
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
— Samantha Power
I think the country requires fresh leadership. I do not think I can be the captain to take the country to its next destination.
— David Cameron
There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.
— David Cameron
I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
— Nancy Pelosi
The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
— Nancy Pelosi
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
— Condoleezza Rice
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
— Condoleezza Rice
If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.
— Jeremy Corbyn
For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.
— Jeremy Corbyn
For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
— Adam Grant
If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
— Adam Grant
Scott Walker has provided some really excellent leadership in Wisconsin.
— Ron Johnson
As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on.
— Lewis Howes
There needs to be leadership in the heartland of America.
— Isaac Hanson
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
— Herbert Hoover
Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.
— Steve Blank
A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill it's a people skill. 
— Jason Fried
I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.
— Dana Perino
Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
— Wendy Kopp
I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
— Wendy Kopp
The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
— Wendy Kopp
School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
— Wendy Kopp
If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.
— Wendy Kopp
Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
— Wendy Kopp
Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
— Alan Stern
This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
— Ted Deutch
We are at a point in our nation's history when the right leadership is needed more than ever. Hillary has spent her life advocating for poor and working class families. Hillary will help build an economy for tomorrow and beyond strengthen America's families defend our country and its core values and revitalize our democracy. 
— Marcia Fudge
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
— Azim Premji
The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.
— Azim Premji
I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.
— Dylan Lauren
I believe most of the public should be involved in the election of the leadership.
— Tzipi Livni
We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'
— Rob Portman
I see The Rock running in 2020 and being a two-term president. I think he would be great, and I'm joking when I say I think Stephanie McMahon wouldn't be a fine president of the United States. I think she's got the leadership qualities. I see those two as potential candidates, and I see Kane as a congressional leader.
— Mick Foley
Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
— John Podhoretz
A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
— John T. Chambers
I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.
— John T. Chambers
A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.
— Grover Norquist
Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed.
— Sharad Pawar
All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.
— George Vecsey
ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.
— James Lankford
It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
— Sam Graves
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
— Sherrod Brown
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
— Sherrod Brown
I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.
— Elizabeth Esty
Our country needs a new generation of leadership, and I believe that Marco Rubio presents this nation with the greatest possibilities and opportunities to meet the challenges of the next generation.
— Cory Gardner
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.
— Cory Gardner
There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.
— Steve Scalise
There's a conspiracy going on online every day between these top U.K. individuals within ISIS leadership out of Syria.
— Mike McCaul
The sad fact is, because we've had a failed policy and failed leadership, now we're having to rely on Russians and the Iranians to go into Syria to fight and destroy ISIS.
— Mike McCaul
My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.
— Shiv Nadar
If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.
— Tim Kaine
Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership.
— Jeff Sessions
Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.
— David Ignatius
The nation's chronic weakness is its political system, which is nearing dysfunction. If the U.S. can elect better political leadership, it should be able to manage problems better than most competitors.
— David Ignatius
If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.
— John Fleming
The Freedom Caucus, like many of the members, feel like that we have too much of a top-heavy, power-based type of leadership program where the decisions are made exclusively at the top and that members voices are not heard, which means that our constituents' voices are not heard: those that we represent.
— John Fleming
Louisiana's a very conservative state. When we've ever polled this, we've found that they like conservative reforms. They want us to fight back against our leadership and Democrats, so it's very consistent.
— John Fleming
America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.
— John Fleming
You can't consider a president weak because he will have a Congress that Mexican voters have wanted to be co-responsible in the decisions to be taken... It will be through the leadership that I will exercise that we will be able to build the agreements in Congress.
— Enrique Pena Nieto