American Leadership Quotes

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

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

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• Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Civilization, America

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs
  of those who would be affected by it

  Marian Anderson

  Leadership, Education, Understanding

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• Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, People, United States

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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

  Jesse Jackson

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

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• I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Strong, Years, Anchors

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• This is American leadership at its best: We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Fighting, Safe Haven

  Statement by the President on ISIL, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 10, 2014.

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• I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people are supportive, of course, and some people are dismayed by it. I think one thing that draws most people together - maybe 80 percent of the people - is a very strong view of American leadership and the American alliance.

  Richard Glover

  Strong, Thinking, Australia

  Source: www.npr.org

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• America's exceptionalism, American leadership, the American model, the American values are not [first with Donald Trump] - they're something that end at the border.

  Mark Shields

  America, Borders, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Military, War

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement, torture, Guantanamo Bay and any other social and political issues related to the American society not directly connected to Islam? American Muslims must speak out and be involved as well in international policies and, through their institutions, they should raise their voice. This is the way you serve the community.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Voice, America, Issues

  "Tariq Ramadan: My Absence Would Certainly Be The Most Powerful Speech I Have Ever Given At ISNA". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. August 14, 2014.

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• American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Matter, Burden

  "Obama defends Libya policy". "The World Today with Eleanor Hall", www.abc.net.au. March 29, 2011.

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• America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Numbers, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

  John Boehner

  War, America, President

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. March 29, 2015.

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• When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

  Monica Crowley

  Wise, Evil, World

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• There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

  Rich Lowry

  War, Way, Allies

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• I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Jobs, Growth

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• I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

  Susan Rice

  Thinking, Periods, Judged

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• To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Destiny, Hands

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us into retreating from the world stage. But President Obama has made it a priority to renew American leadership in the world, strengthening our alliances and deepening partnerships.

  John O. Brennan

  Play, Priorities, President

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• Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

  Pete Domenici

  Oil, Energy, Use

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• As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers.

  John Bolton

  Writing, Years, Stressed

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