Political Leadership Quotes

• I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

  Carly Fiorina

  Leadership, Thinking, Government

  "Carly Fiorina: The $59 million candidate in 2016" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2015.

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• For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Responsibility, Government

  Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.

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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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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• 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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  It is not power that corrupts but fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Wielding Power, Corrupt Power, Power Corrupts

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Boss, Political

  John F. Kennedy (1963). “Profiles in Courage”

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• We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.

  Ralph Peters

  Government, People, Leader

  Ralph Peters (2004). “Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World”, p.133, Stackpole Books

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• What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.

  Juan Somavia

  Giving, Community, Political

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• 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

  Inspiring, Leadership, Thinking

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• Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

  Harriet Harman

  Change, Strong, Political

  "Brown Accused of 'Ruthlessness'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 20, 2007.

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• Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

  Arthur Miller

  Distance, Two, Evil

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• We need political leadership that will move the world away from war into solving its problems through dialogue and negotiation, to build friendship with people, which is not what we've had with this war on terror.

  Mairead Corrigan

  War, Moving, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Political, Words Of Wisdom

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Moving, Political, Vision

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• I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

  James A. Michener

  Plato, Thinking, People

  "The World Is My Home". Book by James A. Michener, 1991.

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• There is an undeniable economic and cultural disconnect between many of those who volunteer to serve and those who choose to remain civilians. But what is more concerning to me is the disconnect between our political leadership that applauds our soldiers and veterans, but then won't provide funding to properly armored vehicles or health care when our servicemen and women come home. You can't send men and women to war without being prepared to take care of them abroad and give them the services they need when they return home.

  Ruben Gallego

  War, Home, Men

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• The true measure of a city is its soul. This is the restless energy that doesn't wait for political leadership.

  Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

  Cities, Waiting, Political

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• The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Exercise, Goal, Political

  "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror". Book by Michael Ignatieff, April 2004.

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• Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.

  Condoleezza Rice

  People, Political, Development

  "Condoleezza Rice plays Hardball". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 15, 2005.

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• We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

  Margaret Mead

  Thinking, People, Political

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow

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• White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

  Mark Shields

  Class, White, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

  Robert Gilpin

  Political, Eras, Firsts

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.406, Princeton University Press

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• Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Political, Detroit, Host

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• Donald Trump`s meeting with the president of Mexico comes after months of bashing that country and its political leadership. Trump has called the Mexican government corrupt and dishonest.

  Steve Kornacki

  Country, Government, Mexican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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