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“You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.”

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Author:Dmitry Peskov

“We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.”

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.”

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Author:William Allen White

“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

Source: The Prince

“Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela