Political Leaders Quotes

• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Knowledge, Gun

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Cheer, Leader

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate.

  Kevin Mattson

  Ideas, Creating, Leader

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

  Mark Skousen

  People, Leader, Political

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• Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

  Lester R. Brown

  Support Systems, Leader, Political

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

  Golda Meir

  Thinking, Leader, Political

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Leader, Political

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• People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

  Lucy Powell

  Jobs, Banking Crisis, People

  "Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2008.

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• Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldn’t give them negative messages.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Turkeys, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Iran, Opposites

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah] describes the condition when [he] states, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them." and then these words follow-and consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: "O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Father, Home

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• It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

  Abba Eban

  Leadership, Mean, Opposites

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Our Generation, Years

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• I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Russia, Leader, Political

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• Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.

  Shakira

  Yield, Leader, Political

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, America, Leader

  Robert M. Gates's Remarks at the Security and Defense Agenda, Brussels, Belgium, archive.defense.gov. June 10, 2011.

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• I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Real, Class

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• When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

  Michael Short

  Leadership, Lying, Greatness

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• It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Ideas, Leader, Political

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, People

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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