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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Sharpton

Politician · American · b. 1954

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tom Daschle

Politician · American · b. 1947

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

Tom Lantos

Diplomat · American · 1928 – 2008

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

Thomas Menino

Politician · American · b. 1942

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

Michael Scheuer

Public Servant · American

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

Christopher Dodd

Politician · American · b. 1944

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Christiane Amanpour

Journalist · English · b. 1958

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Toni Morrison

Novelist · American · b. 1931

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Phil Crosby

Author · American · 1926 – 2001

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

John Jay Hooker

Businessman · American

The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Woodrow Wilson

President · American · 1856 – 1924

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Steve Ballmer

Businessman · American · b. 1956

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Gail Sheehy

Writer · American · b. 1937

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Walter Lippmann

Journalist · American · 1889 – 1974

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Andre Maurois

Writer · French · 1885 – 1967

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

Bill Hybels

Clergyman · American

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

Statesman · American · b. 1937

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Peter King

Politician · American · b. 1944

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Sam Rayburn

Politician · American · 1882 – 1961

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

Businessman · American · 1902 – 1984

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

Politician · American · b. 1933

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

John Ralston Saul

Author · Canadian · b. 1947

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

Michael Porter

Educator · American

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

Lindsey Graham

Politician · American · b. 1955

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

Politician · American · b. 1933

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Warren G. Bennis

Psychologist

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

Warren G. Bennis

Psychologist

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

James Callaghan

Leader · English · 1912 – 2005

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

Robert Ley

Soldier · German · 1890 – 1945

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader · 1890 – 1970

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Warren G. Bennis

Psychologist

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Henry Ellis

Psychologist · British · b. 1859

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Lawyer · American · b. 1934

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

Warren G. Bennis

Psychologist

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Martin McGuinness

Politician · Irish · b. 1950

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell

Clergyman · American

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

Joshua Chamberlain

Soldier · American · 1828 – 1914

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

Jane Harman

Politician · American · b. 1945

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.

Wilma Mankiller

Statesman · Cherokee · b. 1945

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

Businessman · American · b. 1952

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Sam Houston

Politician · American · 1793 – 1863

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Pete Domenici

Politician · American · b. 1932

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Ernest Mandel

Author · Belgian · 1923 – 1995

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

Bo Bennett

Businessman · American · b. 1972

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

Politician · American · b. 1970

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

John Abizaid

Soldier · American · b. 1951

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

Politician · Vietnamese · b. 1930

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Ron Reagan

Journalist · American · b. 1958

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