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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
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This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
– Jim Cooper
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This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.
– Tim Bishop
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This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.
– Marc Morial
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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
– David Joseph Schwartz
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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
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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
– Pete du Pont
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There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
– Kevin Rollins
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There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
– Bob Feller
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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
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There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
– John Raleigh Mott
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There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
– Peter Pace
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
– Bertolt Brecht
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The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.
– Bryant McGill
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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
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
– Theodore Hesburgh
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The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.
– Andy Stern
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The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.
– Dennis Cardoza
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The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
– Arthur Scargill
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
– Michael Pollan
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The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.
– David Miliband
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The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
– Paul Ryan
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
– Linda Vester
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
– Carlos Ghosn
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The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
– Ray Kroc
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The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.
– Alexis Herman
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
– Ed Markey
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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
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The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
– Herman Cain
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically they grow exponentially.
– Indra Nooyi
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The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
– Louis Gerstner
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
– Warren G. Bennis
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The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
– Rosa Luxemburg
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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
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The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.
– Allan Houston
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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
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The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.
– Dennis Cardoza
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The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
– Michael Burgess
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The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.
– Michael Burgess
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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
– Ken Blanchard
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The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
– Gerry Adams
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The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
– Jan Schakowsky
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The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.
– Joe Heck
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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
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The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.
– Ken Mehlman
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The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
– Charles Williams
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The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
– Michael Gove
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The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
– John Olver
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The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
– Tom Lantos
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The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
– Richard Grimes
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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
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The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.
– Isaiah Thomas
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The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
– Zhang Ziyi
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The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
– Adolf Hitler
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
– Barbara Sher
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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
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Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
– John Grierson
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Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
– John Raleigh Mott
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Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
– Kendrick Meek
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Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.
– Daley Thompson
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Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
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So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.
– Mario Diaz-Balart
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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
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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
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Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
– Bill Kristol
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Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
– Michael Bergdahl
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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
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
– W. Averell Harriman
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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
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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
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Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
– Pete Hoekstra
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President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.
– Henry Bonilla
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Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
– Thomas Menino
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
– Thomas Sowell
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
– Gary Ackerman
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People look for their leadership to lead.
– Mick Cornett
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Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
– Franz von Papen
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Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
– Louis Farrakhan
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
– Charles Edison
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Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
– Chester Irving Barnard
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One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
– Robert Shea
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
– Tim Pawlenty
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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
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Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
– Kgalema Motlanthe
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On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
– Fredrik Bajer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.
– Mitt Romney
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My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
– Frederick Smith
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My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
– Henry Cuellar
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
– Young Jeezy
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
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Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
– Patrick J. Kennedy
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Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
– Robert Kiyosaki
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
– Jeff Bezos
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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
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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
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
– Walter Russell Mead
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