World Leader Quotes - Page 7

• Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

  Eglantyne Jebb

  Leadership, Children, Generations

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• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Mike Ferguson

  Spiritual, Powerful, Leader

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• Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.

  Lucy Powell

  Leader, Speech, News

  "Labour must learn from Obama" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.

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• The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

  Alan Cranston

  Adventure, Ideas, Leader

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• Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

  Dylan Moran

  Lonely, Cake, Talking

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• So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children’s rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Children, Rights, Leader

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Strong, Moving, Thinking

  "WH Sr Adviser Valerie Jarrett". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2010.

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• President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

  Craig Kilborn

  Powerful, War, Night

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• Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Race, Yellow

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.43, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

  Charles M. Blow

  Determination, Destiny, Leader

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• With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

  Ann Coulter

  Long, People, Leader

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• Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?

  Chris Matthews

  Other Worlds, People, Mourning

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.

  Barack Obama

  Dysfunction, America, Leader

  "OBAMA: 'We Are Not Going To Get A Deal' Without Raising Tax Rates". Interview with Julianna Goldman, www.businessinsider.com. December 4, 2012.

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• There are many world leaders who are worse than [Donald] Trump.They don't just talk about violence, they practice it on an extreme scale. And we welcome them to our country.

  Edward Leigh

  Country, Practice, Leader

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.

  Hugh Sidey

  Communication, Years, People

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• We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Goal, Progress, World

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• Meeting Fidel Castro was really cool. It's cool because it's Fidel, and it's a world leader, and there's so much history behind the man and who he is in this hemisphere. And then at the end of the day, he's, I think, just like a big mayor. There's only, like, 11 million people in Cuba. He's a big mayor.

  Aaron McGruder

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

  Peter Yarrow

  Leadership, Shoes, Role Models

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• We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Population Problem, Two, Roots

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• Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

  Jamie Drummond

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

  Peter Morgan

  Country, Other Worlds, Leader

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• America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

  David Brooks

  Military, Order, Play

  "David Brooks: Rand Paul 'Leading The Party One Way, Marco Rubio Is Leading Another'". www.realclearpolitics.com. March 17, 2013.

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• If world leaders decide to [meet the Millennium Development Goals], I think it can be done by 2015...The question is, is there a political will to make this investment?

  Thoraya Obaid

  Thinking, Political Will, Goal

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• I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely alarmed by Trump's election. That very much includes Angela Merkel.

  David Remnick

  People, Leader, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?

  Joshua Fernandez

  Pain, Leader, World

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