Leader Quotes - Page 14

• Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.

  Amy Ziering

  Military, Race, Culture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

  George Pataki

  People, Partisan Politics, Partisans

  George Pataki at Republican Presidential Debate at University of Colorado's Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

  Chicken John

  Thinking, Cities, San Francisco

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But most of us who aren't models aren't models, right? And so, you just have to get used to that and sort of read right past it. So. On the sex symbol piece, I don't get that piece. On the personality piece, that people are excited to meet a leader from Mozilla - maybe there's more about meeting me personally than I give credit for, but I find that people are excited about what Mozilla is, more than 'Oh my god, there's Mitchell, look, her hair,' whatever.

  Mitchell Baker

  Sex, Past, Hair

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura McClure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.

  Danny Glover

  Running, Country, School

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. February 8, 2012.

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• Muqtada leads the only real mass movement in Iraq. It's a mass movement of the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population, and of poor Shia - and most Shia are poor. Otherwise the place is full of sort of self-declared leaders, many of whom spend most of their time outside Iraq.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Real, Iraq, Self

  "Who Is Iraq’s 'Firebrand Cleric'?". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. March 31, 2008.

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• You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Government, Amman, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• So the only way I could stave off any of these assaults was to become a gang banger, and to excel, so I could quell the behavior. If I excelled, then I could call the shots. So I became a community leader from inside.

  Malik Yusef

  Community, Way, Gang

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You can have an elected parliament that makes laws, but if the judiciary is appointed by the Supreme Leader - who is a representative of God - then you're kind of at an impasse.

  Azadeh Moaveni

  Kind, Judiciary

  "Lipstick Jihad: An Interview With Azadeh Moaveni". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 9, 2005.

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• You don't need a team leader, you need quality.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Team, Quality, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Team, Believe, Complaining

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

  Alexei Navalny

  Independent, Russia, People

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• I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

  Francois Hollande

  Country, Matter, Indispensable

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• Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Political, Political Leaders

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it is going to be something that spreads across this country very quickly, and that the food manufacturers would be wise to be leaders instead of trying to block this with lawsuits and other ways of trying to get their way.

  Peter Shumlin

  Wise, Country, Block

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

  Mark Shields

  Political, Democracy, Political Leaders

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  Psychological, Habit, States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Pope was more critical of Christianity than Islam during his visit (to Bavaria). He said on several occasions that the secular world influenced by Christianity must face the idea that it may not be as attractive as it once was. The leaders of other faiths might also be well-advised to admonish their own now and then and not always direct their criticism at others.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Ideas, Islam, Criticism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Facts, Spirituality

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• People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action.

  Bill Jensen

  Shoes, People, Inspire

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• The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.

  Larry Osborne

  Risk, Littles, Common

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• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about 'hope' and 'change'. His name was Fidel Castro.

  Rafael Cruz

  Strong, Teenager, Military

  "Geraldo Rivera: A Cruz Missile Aimed At Nueva America?" by Geraldo Rivera, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2013.

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• Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Revolution, Done

  George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.334, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Giving, Purpose

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