Political Leaders Quotes - Page 7

• There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

  Pope Francis

  Attitude, Leader, Political

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.36, Orbis Books

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• In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Men, Role Models

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

  Arianna Huffington

  Trust, Leadership, Country

  "How to Overthrow the Government". Book by Arianna Huffington, 2000.

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• The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

  Barack Obama

  Peace, Fate, Leader

  Remarks in Town Hall with Youth of Northern Ireland, Belfast Waterfront, Belfast, June 17, 2013.

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• 'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

  Jonathan Raban

  Dream, Father, Real

  "He tried his best to veil it, but Obama is an intellectual" by Jonathan Raban, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

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• Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  Emma Goldman

  Crush, Children, Betrayal

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• A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Years, Ideas, Leader

  "New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1%" by Larry Elliott, Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2015.

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• There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

  Miroslav Volf

  America, Leader, Political

  "Muslim Radicalization Hearings: A Political Spectacle That Perpetuates Prejudice" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

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• A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Expression, Leader, Political

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• If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Fate, Men

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• Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Pain, Educational

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• I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

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• Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Men, Leader, Political

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.3, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• As a businessperson, I dont have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Government, Hands, Leader

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• North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Political, Leader

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• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  Wendy Davis

  Teacher, Art, School

  "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Single, Country, Believe

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• We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Communication, Leader, Political

  Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.139, Macmillan

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• Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Anchors, Leader

  Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

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• The world understands that our country could solve all conflicts with military solutions, but we won't because we have leaders and we have a moral responsibility but we have also have a political - we have a political leader who is scared and who is raised on the idea that American force is the true evil.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Military, Responsibility

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

  Jacques Delors

  Leader, Political, Groups

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• Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.

  Tim Bishop

  Country, Past, Europe

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• We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

  S. R. Nathan

  Children, School, Leader

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