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Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

Julie Bishop

Politician · Australian · b. 1956

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Rudy Giuliani

Politician · American · b. 1944

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Tim Bishop

Politician · American · b. 1950

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

Historian · Roman

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Ken Blanchard

Businessman · American

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

Warren G. Bennis

Psychologist

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Norman Borlaug

Scientist · American · b. 1914

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

Neil Cavuto

Journalist · American · b. 1958

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

Writer · Russian · b. 1948

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Bill Owens

Politician · American · b. 1950

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

Politician · American · b. 1950

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

Statesman · b. 1938

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Buchan

Politician · Scottish · 1875 – 1940

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Rudy Giuliani

Politician · American · b. 1944

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Soldier · 1780 – 1831

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn

Politician · American · b. 1948

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Robert Baden-Powell

Soldier · English · 1857 – 1941

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

Businessman · American · b. 1868

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Marguerite Young

Author · American · 1908 – 1995

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Oriana Fallaci

Journalist · Italian · b. 1929

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

Bill Owens

Politician · American · b. 1950

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Psychologist

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Jan Schakowsky

Politician · American · b. 1944

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

Mary Douglas

Scientist · British · 1921 – 2007

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

Statesman · American · b. 1954

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

Journalist · American

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

Jeb Bush

Politician · American · b. 1953

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Leader · South African · b. 1928

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Omar N. Bradley

Soldier · American · 1893 – 1981

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

Michael Porter

Educator · American

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Chris Patten

Politician · British · b. 1944

America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Arianna Huffington

Journalist · American · b. 1950

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

Mac Thornberry

Politician · American · b. 1958

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

Lee Scott

Businessman · American

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

James Callaghan

Leader · English · 1912 – 2005

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman · b. 1923

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Writer · American

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

Richard J. Daley

Politician · American · 1902 – 1976

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Clergyman · American · 1869 – 1942

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

Ken Mehlman

Politician · American · b. 1966

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Francis Maude

Politician · British · b. 1953

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman · b. 1923

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Bernard Baruch

Businessman · American · 1870 – 1965

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

Lee Scott

Businessman · American

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Hans Kung

Theologian · Swiss · b. 1928

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold S. Geneen

Businessman · British

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Keith Henson

Scientist · American

I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

Pat Robertson

Clergyman · American · b. 1930

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