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“What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.”

People Two Difficult Leader Struggle Balance Objectives Treated Ministers Prime Conventions Prime Minister Seekers Discouraging Asylums Smuggling Asylum Seekers

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

“What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workplace. What I get is that where employees are well treated, employers do well.”

Wells Done Leader Unions Treated Operations Employee Representatives Workplace Employers

Author:Bill Shorten

“I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation to treat everyone differently. Because people aren't all the same, and the last thing you ever want to do, in my opinion, is let the best in your organization be treated like the worst in your organization. It does nothing for your future.”

People Thinking Want Doe Lasts Leader Opinion Worst Organization Treats Absolutes Obligation Treated Our Future Your Future

Author:Jack Welch

“Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.”

Men World Long Turns White Race Leader Treats Burden Treated Yellow Asia World Leader White Race Colossus

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.”

Way Should Leader Doors Treated Execution Midnight

Author:Tony Abbott