Political Leaders Quotes

• We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

  Mark Skousen

  People, Leader, Political

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• 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.

  Lester R. Brown

  Support Systems, Leader, Political

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.8, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Pope Francis

  Honesty, Integrity, Commitment

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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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• I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

  Paul Ryan

  Leader, Political, Makers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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

  Mark Shields

  Leader, Political, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

  Joseph Stalin

  Powerful, Knowledge, Gun

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• The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing independence of voters, after all, has been proven by the votes in every Presidential election since my childhood and the tendency, frankly, is on the increase.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wise, Lying, Government

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• Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Leader, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, Intelligence Services

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• Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

  Michael Kroger

  Leadership, People, Political

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• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

  Bernard Baruch

  Time, Boys, Leader

  In New York Times 21 June 1965, p. 16

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• If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

  Golda Meir

  Thinking, Leader, Political

  Golda Meir, Israel Shenker, Mary Shenker (1970). “As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister”

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• People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Philosophy, Selfish, Struggle

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 8), 1949.

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• Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Leadership, Persistence, Views

  "Epistulae ad Familiares (Letters to Friends)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 9, Section 21), 62-43 BC.

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• A political leader worthy of assassination

  Irving Layton

  Leader, Political, Worthy

  The Whole Bloody Bird "Obs II" (1969)

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• From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation, democracy will be a meaningless term. Without political leaders articulating this idea and acting upon it, public life and citizenship will continue to stagnate.

  Kevin Mattson

  Ideas, Creating, Leader

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• The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Mistake, Self, People

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• 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.

  John Lindsay

  Country, Believe, Men

  The Washington Post, p. 3, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 3, 1970.

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• People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

  Lucy Powell

  Jobs, Banking Crisis, People

  "Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 03, 2008.

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• The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reality, Leader, Political

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• 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.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Thinking, Leader

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