c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.
— Ron Fournier
With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
— Ron Fournier
People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.
— Paul Gosar
Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.
— Paul Gosar
We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.
— Paul Gosar
Leadership has a price.
— Paul Gosar
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
Someday, somehow, the leadership of Planned Parenthood will have to answer for their callous disregard of the sanctity of human life. In the meantime, I am relieved that the Bryan abortion facility has gone out of business.
— Bill Flores
I think the comments about me being a shill for leadership are beyond the pale.
— Bill Flores
I have disagreements with leadership, I have disagreements with the speaker, but I have those one-on-one.
— Bill Flores
When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.
— Peter Bergen
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
— Billy Collins
You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.
— Steve Wynn
It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
— William Hague
I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.
— Phil Gingrey
Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.
— Michael T. Flynn
The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.
— Michael T. Flynn
Because of Obama's ill-advised actions, the world has lost American leadership.
— Michael T. Flynn
There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism.
— Michael T. Flynn
American presidential leadership never goes out of style.
— Monica Crowley
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
— Monica Crowley
Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.
— Robin S. Sharma
I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.
— Robin S. Sharma
Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it. 
— Robin S. Sharma
I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.
— Maz Jobrani
You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
— Virgil Goode
I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
— Jack Keane
I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.
— Jack Keane
Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.
— Jack Keane
Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.
— Lynn Good
Leadership is hard to train on.
— Ben Horowitz
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
— Donald Rumsfeld
The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
— J. D. Vance
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
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
— Julia Stiles
If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.
— David Oyelowo
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
— Robert Wilson
We who reject Trump's bankrupt leadership must heal old wounds, reorient ourselves, and embrace common goals. And if there is one thing on which we can all agree, it's this: we cannot concede any ground.
— David Brock
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
— Justin Trudeau
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
— Justin Trudeau
We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.
— Chris Gibson
Mary Jo and I have three teenagers who are in their last years at home. In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly.
— Chris Gibson
Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.
— Douglas Alexander
It was easy for Sanford to have a bully pulpit as governor. It's another thing to be in the trenches, having to face leadership, and say, 'No, that's not a conservative position, that's not what we're doing.'
— Jeff Duncan
Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.
— Anthony Fauci
Donald Trump was not asked by the leadership to change. And there's no reason for him to change. He's just won the primary process with a record number of votes, beating a field of 16 qualified candidates. So, there's no reason for Donald Trump to change.
— Paul Manafort
Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he's not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.
— Paul Manafort
Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.
— Paul Manafort
The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.
— Paul Manafort
In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
— Charles Stanley
I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.
— Chris Hadfield
In many ways, Mitt Romney and I are very different. Different starts in life. Different paths to leadership. Different cultures.
— Susana Martinez
Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.
— Carson Wentz
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
— Chris Christie
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
— Chris Christie
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
— Eliot Spitzer
I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.
— Leila Janah
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
I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.
— Kellyanne Conway
As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
— Dan Webster
I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
— Aaron Rodgers
I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.
— Mickey Drexler
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
— Rahm Emanuel
Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.
— Rahm Emanuel
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
— Rahm Emanuel
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
— Rahm Emanuel
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.
— Nina Easton
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
— Nina Easton
Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
— Gene Green
I work closely with Hispanic leadership.
— Gene Green
I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
— Baba Kalyani
The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.
— Jeff Fortenberry
What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
— Bob Iger
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
— Bob Iger
Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
— Iain Duncan Smith
The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.
— David Novak
It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
— Fred Wilson
A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
— Hamza Yusuf
While security of national leadership is of paramount significance, expenditure on permanent civil structures at the family home of the prime minister and chief minister from public exchequer will be a burden on their conscience.
— Shehbaz Sharif
There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
— Rick Santorum
Evangelicals overwhelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan - not because he was the most religious candidate, but he possessed the quality evangelicals felt like was most important, and that is leadership.
— Robert Jeffress
When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.
— Juan Williams
NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.
— Juan Williams
I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.
— Andrew Luck
I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.
— Andrew Luck
I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.
— Lucy Powell
It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
— Lucy Powell
It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades conservative Republicans had made promises to them on issues that were important to Christians and conservatives when they were running for office. But when they won, they didn't keep those promises.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America's blue-collar billionaire at the Republican National Convention because of his love for ordinary Americans and his kindness, generosity, and bold leadership qualities.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
— Daisaku Ikeda
When the president went around the table to the country's national security leadership, Hillary was clear: We have to go get bin Laden. And our Special Operations Forces did just that.
— Leon Panetta
If it doesn't have a full delay or defund of Obamacare, I know I and many others will not be able to support whatever the leadership proposes.
— Scott Garrett
Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
— John O. Brennan
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
— Lee Iacocca
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
— Margaret Heffernan
Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.
— Margaret Heffernan
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
— Margaret Heffernan
Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.
— Judy Smith
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
— Jessica Lange
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
— Peter T. King
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
— Peter T. King
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 T. King
Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates, and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn't provide leadership, and he has no real experience.
— Peter T. King
In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'
— Theo James
That's part of being a real citizen: always questioning your leadership, not only about what it is doing in your own country, but what it is doing elsewhere. Because it is connected.
— Raoul Peck
I think I can bring tremendous leadership.
— Jared Goff
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
— Michelle Bachelet
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
Leadership desperately needs women.
— Marilyn Ferguson
I have no doubt that the Palestinian Arab leadership made a mistake when it did not accept the partition plan in 1947, but I want to try to understand it.
— Ayman Odeh
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
— Steve Ballmer
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
— Lindsey Graham
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
— Lindsey Graham
For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
— Najib Razak
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.
— Tom Vilsack
Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.
— William Clay Ford, Jr.
When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
— Park Chan-wook
In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.
— David Whyte
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.
— Christine Pelosi
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
— Noah Feldman
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world's largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating.
— Noah Feldman
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
— Angela Davis
I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.
— Tom Graves
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
— Jim Webb
What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.
— Tom Graves
I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich will continue.
— Karen Handel
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
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.
— Ai Weiwei
Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.
— Vicente Fox
We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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
We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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
The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.
— David Miliband
The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
— David Miliband
Kellyanne is the first female campaign manager of any major party to win a presidential general election. In her position, Kellyanne will continue her role as a close adviser to the president-elect and will work with senior leadership to effectively message and execute the administration's legislative priorities and actions.
— Sean Spicer
Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.
— Mitchell Baker
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
— Wendy Davis
I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.
— Wendy Davis
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
— Wendy Davis
Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.
— Robert Kraft
Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.
— Robert Kraft
I can tell people a story that they believe in and get behind. So I'm good at the leadership part. But I've always said that I'm a terrible manager. I'm not good at giving feedback.
— Stewart Butterfield
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
— Ronald Kessler
It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.
— Klaus Schwab
In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
— Imran Amed
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
— Kamala Harris
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
We went bankrupt one time and lost everything. When I tell that story at my Women's Leadership LIVE conferences, people are shocked. I mean, our house was auctioned off and the car repossessed in the driveway. We had to start over again.
— Linda McMahon
I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.
— Bobby Jindal
I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
— Xavier Becerra
California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
— Xavier Becerra
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
— Bertolt Brecht
The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
— Nigel Hamilton
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
— Howard Dean
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
— Kofi Annan
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
— Helmut Kohl
I think that bold leadership sells.
— Sean Duffy
I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
— Ed Rendell
China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
— Malcolm Turnbull
Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.
— Anne M. Mulcahy
I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues that left the other candidates bewildered. Part of it may be his age. But whatever the reason, I had real hope that he could help lead us into a new century of technology leadership and growth.
— Michael Arrington
In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.
— Paul Johnson
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?
— Shashi Tharoor
I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.
— Donna Karan
The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity someone who knows the difference between good and bad. 
— Isaac Herzog
The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.
— Isaac Herzog
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
— Warren Bennis
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
— Warren Bennis
In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
— Biz Stone
I can govern by bringing people together. And also, I've been tested in a way no one else has. I was governor on September 11th, and I'm proud of my leadership in bringing New York through that time. And when I left, we were stronger, we were safer, and we were more united than at any time in my lifetime.
— George Pataki
There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
— Jeff Greenfield
I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.
— Mario Monti
So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.
— Mario Monti
I do go against my leadership all the time because I stand firm on the four questions that I ask about all legislation. The first, is it constitutional according to the original intent? The second, does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon? Third, do we need it? Fourth, can we afford it?
— Paul Broun
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
— Jeremy Grantham
There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.
— John Eldredge
I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.
— Maurice Strong
Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
— Gary Herbert
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
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
— Gerry Adams
For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.
— Gerry Adams
I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
— R. J. Cutler
There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.
— Robert M. Gates
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
— Jim Cooper
I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
— Jim Cooper
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
— James Dobson
It's an American worker's right to unionize for sure, but that being said, don't expect me not to point out when or if union leadership takes advantage of union members.
— Joe Wurzelbacher
Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.
— Dikembe Mutombo
Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.
— Grace Poe
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
— Major Owens
So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
— Ann Cotton
For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.
— Ann Cotton
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
— Ed Gillespie
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
— John Abizaid
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
— Mike Quigley
ROIers are always reaching out to me to share their appreciation for the experiences, opportunities and connections we have provided and also to express their excitement about taking the next step in their leadership journey.
— Lynn Schusterman
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.
— Philip Zimbardo
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
— Octavia Butler
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
— Mary Douglas
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
— Helen Clark
I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.
— Douglas Conant
Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.
— Brian Sandoval
When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
— Jenny Shipley
I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
— Drew Gilpin Faust
I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.
— Ander Crenshaw
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
— Christiane Amanpour
No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
— Irwin Redlener
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
— Irving Babbitt
I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.
— Dianna Agron
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
— Chuck Hagel
We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
— Yahoo Serious
Leadership does matter.
— Mark Rutte
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
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
— Natan Sharansky
Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation.
— Richard Carmona
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
— Robert Teeter
We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.
— Katori Hall
President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.
— David Mixner
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
— Robert Teeter
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
— Robert Teeter
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
— Susan Rice
In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's in favor of my principles: free markets, adherence to the Constitution, and equal treatment for everyone under the law.
— Dave Brat
My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.
— Mary Barra
I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
— Margaret D. Nadauld
Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
— Nate Parker
So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
— Nate Parker
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
— Bob Riley
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
— Andrew Greeley
I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.
— John Thune
I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.
— John Thune
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
— C. L. R. James
I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.
— Raymond Kelly