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“A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.”

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Author:Andre Malraux

“We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.”

Government Form Political Leader Violence Circumstances Domestic Violence Violence Against Women Political Leaders Stop Violence Against Women

Author:Ban Ki-moon

“And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.”

Kind Political Can Do Leader Revolution Genius Cat Climate Remembered American Revolution Political Leaders Stray Cats

Book:Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

Source: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

“One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?”

“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”

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Author:Abba Eban

“I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Remember Political Leader Steps Knowing Successful Achieve Seeking What You Want Political Leaders Knowing What You Want

Author:Tony Abbott

“Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.”

People Government Political Pay Leader Taxes Majors Ordinary Bills Priorities Accountability Political Leaders Restoring New Government

Author:Stephen Harper

“We have become a nation ruled by fear. Since the end of the Second World War, various political leaders have fostered fear in the American people--fear of communism, fear of terrorism, fear of immigrants, fear of people based on race and religion, fear of gays and lesbians in love who just want to get married and fear of people who are somehow different. It is fear that allows political leaders to manipulate us all and distort our national priorities.”

Source: A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Man's Fight to Stop It

“Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.”

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Author:Jose Maria Aznar

“In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.”

Source: As We Go Marching

“The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.”

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Author:Don Nickles

“We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.”

“The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.”

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Author:David Simon

“Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.”

Inspirational Political Father Cities Leader Consistently Negotiation Political Leaders Good Faith

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.”

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Author:Pete du Pont

“These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.”

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Author:Jacques Delors

“Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires”

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Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

“Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.”

“There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady

“We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.”

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Author:S. R. Nathan

“Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.”

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Book:Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

Source: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

“You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates.”

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Author:Robert Higgs

“It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.”

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Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.”

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Author:Tim Bishop

“Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose, the citizenry will probably make the wrong choice. Legislators do not think any more in terms of persuading people; they feel the need to force their agenda on the public at the point of a bayonet and the barrel of a gun, in the name of the IRS, the SEC, the FDA, the DEA, the EPA, or a multitude of other ABCs of government authority.”

“I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.”

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Author:Jim Wallis

“It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.”

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Author:Jonathan Raban

“One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.”

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Author:Richard Rohr

“It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.”

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Author:Jan Egeland

“We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in power in this country-who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.”

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