Political Leaders Quotes - Page 3

• Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Leader, Political, Speech

  WGBH-TV Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 12, 1987.

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• 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.

  Pete du Pont

  Baby, People, Leader

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Children, Grandparent

  "It Takes a Village".

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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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• You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

  Scott Pelley

  Leader, Political, Want

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Ultimately, I think the United States is a pretty awesome country but it very plausibly would have been even awesomer had English and American political leaders in the late 18th century been farsighted enough to find compromises that would have held the empire together.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Country, Thinking, Political

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• Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pain, Confused, People

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• 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.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  War, Leader, Political

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• The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

  Alice Miller

  Teacher, Father, Leader

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the
  political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

  Henry Calvert Simons

  Leader, Political, Students

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Numbers, People

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.425, Psychology Press

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• The U.S. was founded by a group of political leaders who signed a document which says, "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." That means that all of your political rights come from God and you then loan some of your power to the State which is why the Constitution begins, "We, the People of the United States.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mean, Rights, People

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

  Moses Finley

  Leader, Political, Would Be

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60, 1985.

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• Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Fighting, Thinking, Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

  Donald Trump

  Leadership, Mexican, Political

  "Univision refuses to air Miss USA pageant after Donald Trump's comments on Mexican immigrants" by Jethro Nededog, www.businessinsider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

  Moses Finley

  Media, Leader, Political

  "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.

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• I demand that every Storm Troop Leader, just as every political leader, should be conscious of the fact that his behavior and conduct must be exemplary. . . . I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing that he may be ruined morally. . . . Storm Troop Leaders who behave unworthily in public are to be mercilessly removed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, Party, Son

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• Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

  Oliver DeMille

  Mean, Leader, Political

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• Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, People

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• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  Oliver DeMille

  Class, Leader, Political

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• It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.

  Salva Kiir Mayardit

  Country, Responsibility, Media

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• Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

  John Avlon

  Media, Talking, Play

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• 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.

  Michael Douglas

  Nuclear Disarmament, Differences, Leader

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• Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

  Antony Beevor

  Leader, Political, Downfall

  Antony Beevor (2003). “The Fall of Berlin 1945”, p.30, Penguin

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• I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Iran, Opposites

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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