World Leader Quotes - Page 5

• The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

  David Suzuki

  Issues, Leader, World

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.67, Greystone Books Ltd

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• It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Communication, Leader, Ordinary

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• The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal to reduce poverty by half by 2015. Never in human history had such a bold goal been adopted by the entire world in one voice, one that specified time and size.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Dream, Voice, Goal

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.238, PublicAffairs

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• I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Technology, America

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• We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Freedom, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

  Mitch Daniels

  Eye, Loss, Events

  Mitch Daniels' keynote speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee at Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. February 11, 2011.

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• The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.

  Bill Hicks

  Leader, Dallas, Plot

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• The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

  Dilma Rousseff

  Our Generation, Leader, Challenges

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• To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Years, Leader

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• What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Views, Leader, World

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Giving, Decision

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.164, Hachette UK

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

  Julie Bishop

  Australia, Leader, Research

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Exercise, Maturity, Thinking

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• Now is the time to divest and invest to let our world leaders know that we, as individuals and institutions, are taking action to address climate change, and we expect them to do their part this December in Paris at the U.N. climate talks.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Our World, Paris, Leader

  "Institutions worth $2.6 trillion have now pulled investments out of fossil fuels" by Damian Carrington, Emma Howard, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2015.

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• As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

  Salil Shetty

  Leader, World, Injustice

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• President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

  Mort Kondracke

  War, Iraq, America

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• The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Leader, World, Achieve

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• Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Leadership, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

  Paul Johnson

  Leader, Inspire, President

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• I think what Republicans want is someone who will stand up and lead, who will take on the great challenges of the day, who will make the case that the path we're on isn't working; that the Obama-economy is a disaster, that Obamacare is a trainwreck, that our constitutional rights are under assault and that we need to restore America's leadership in the world.

  Ted Cruz

  Leadership, Thinking, Rights

  "Potential Bush bid sways none in GOP field" by Deirdre Walsh, Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2014.

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• I always felt that the problems of the world would never ever be solved until people came to terms with the deeper issues [spiritual] - that there would be an aimless reshuffling of world leaders and governments and programs.

  Woody Allen

  Spiritual, Issues, Government

  Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.66, Moody Publishers

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• Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Other Worlds, Leader

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I want world leaders to choose books over bullets...We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Book, Years

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• Instead of concentrating on the war against poverty, global attention is focused on another kind of slaughter - on something that is intangible and yet being tackled by all the possible military means we can muster. And all the lofty declarations by world leaders about combatting poverty that were lauded by the General Assembly turned out to be damp squibs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Military, War, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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