“Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised.....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.” NeedsForceNationsSecretLeaderTechnologySecurityProducePeriodsMajorsAvailableStormTechniqueWeatherWarfareMinimumEmployedDroughtConductingModificationSecurity Forces Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.” WorldReasonPoliticalPowerfulLeaderCenturyPeriodsEnlightenmentEuropeTraditionRootsEmployedBetter PlacePolitical Leaders Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
“Every Muslim leader must unequivocally proclaim that terror committed in the name of Islam violates the core tenets of the Prophet Mohammed, and they must do so repeatedly. Period.” NamesLeaderPeriodsIslamTerrorCommittedCoreProphetProphet Mohammed Author:Mike Pompeo
“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.” LongUsedLosesLeaderHabitPeriodsElectionFacilityBest LeaderFree Elections Author:Chinua Achebe
“In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.” PeoplePowerfulEmotionLeaderClassMiddlePeriodsEmpathyEducatedRevolutionaryMiddle ClassCommunistVery PowerfulPowerful Emotions Author:Hamza Yusuf
“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.” PeopleWorldGivingFeelsMayMeanMatterHandsSpiritualCertainCoursesLeaderAmountPeriodsGiving UpProsperityIncomeCorporateRight ThingProsperousHand In HandSpiritual LeaderCorporate World Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections” RunningAmericaFormLeaderEconomyPeriodsTaxesBasesIronyCollectionsSovietSmoothPhilanthropySplendidBreakdownFranticEvasionTax Evasion Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties