Political Leaders Quotes - Page 6

• What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leader, Political, Voters

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• The true legacy of 9-11 cannot be found among political leaders of the day, but in the citizen soldiers and public safety personnel who answered that day with courage and selflessness.

  Mike Pence

  Safety, Leader, Political

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Europe, Leader

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jobs, Rome, Leader

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied.

  Michael Collins

  Distance, Rich Or Poor, Blue

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• Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Family, Christmas, Xmas

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• The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

  Jim Wallis

  Uplifting, Leader, Political

  Jim Wallis (2006). “God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it”, p.5, Lion Books

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• Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.

  Scott Walker

  Reality, Illinois, Leader

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• Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Leader, Political

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• I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Thinking, Leader, Political

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• And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah] describes the condition when [he] states, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them." and then these words follow-and consider these words seriously when you think of those political leaders who are promoting birth control and abortion: "O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths."

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Father, Home

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• I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Children, Future, Eye

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  Frances O'Grady

  Opportunity, Government, People

  "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.

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• We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Government, Leader, Political

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• Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, America, Leader

  Robert M. Gates's Remarks at the Security and Defense Agenda, Brussels, Belgium, archive.defense.gov. June 10, 2011.

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• The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

  Ralph Nader

  America, Leader, Political

  "The Good Fight". Book by Ralph Nader, 2004.

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• Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

  Ehud Olmert

  People, Leader, Political

  "After the flood" by Brian Keenan, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2006.

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• For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, People, Leader

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change

  Ed Miliband

  Country, Leader, Political

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• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.

  Martin Gardner

  Queens, Kings, Teaching

  "Adventures Of a Mathematician" by Martin Gardner, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 1976.

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• It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Voice, Rights

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.578, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Leader, Political, Century

  Interview with Alberto Statera published in La Stampa, April 1994.

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• You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

  Pope John Paul II

  Leader, Political, Religion

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• The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.

  John Mearsheimer

  Powerful, Europe, Roots

  John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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