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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.

    Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.
  • 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 plays Hardball". "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 15, 2005.
  • 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.

    War   Home   Men  
  • It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

    Tony Blair's Address on Foreign Policy at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2004.
  • Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

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

  • There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

  • Pakistan's political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children.

  • My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

  • It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the ruin, if women had the "power"; if political leadership, decision making, government and economic life was in the hands of women. I think reality, the observation material, supports the assumption.

    "Women As The Protectors Of Life II". Essay by Pentti Linkola, 1996.
  • 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.

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

    "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.
  • The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

    Interview with Russell Schoch, michaelpollan.com. January 4, 2004.
  • 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.

    "The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror". Book by Michael Ignatieff, April 2004.
  • Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

    War   Moving   People  
    Source: www.progressive.org
  • Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

    Order   Political   Done  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    People   Boss   Political  
    John F. Kennedy (1963). “Profiles in Courage”
  • The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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

    "Carly Fiorina: The $59 million candidate in 2016" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2015.
  • We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

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

    "Brown Accused of 'Ruthlessness'". news.bbc.co.uk. March 20, 2007.
  • It is not power that corrupts but fear.

    Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

  • 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.

  • The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.

    Memorable   Order   Names  
  • 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, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1980). “Aspects of the Present”, William Morrow
  • 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.

    Distance   Two   Evil  
  • In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

    "Female Heads of State" by Lynn Harris, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.
  • 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 (2004). “Beyond Terror: Strategy in a Changing World”, p.133, Stackpole Books
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