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“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”

“I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.”

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Author:Eric Shinseki

“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”

“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.”

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Author:Wilma Mankiller

“I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton

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

“I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.”

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Author:Mother Jones

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”

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Book:Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines

Source: Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines

“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”

“In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It was noisy, undisciplined, vainglorious; its leader was a half-educated posturing foreigner. For a decade the National Socialists were regarded as hoodlums, as part of the breakdown of what had been, if anything, an excessively ordered society before.”

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Book:The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism

Source: The Making of Adolf Hitler: The Birth and Rise of Nazism

“Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.”

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Author:Phil Crosby