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.
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.
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.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.
A political leader worthy of assassination
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.
Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.
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.
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.
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.
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