"The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered."
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"The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow."
"Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey, Erdogan, and then it goes down the list. You get Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, you don't get Obama, or in fact any western leader. The public doesn't want the whole imperial project. So if you had democracy, it would be all over."
"I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional?"
"We need a leader, not a reader."
"The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it."
"Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment."
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
"Dekka laughed... "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are."
"There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists."
"I want to be just a pure spiritual leader."
"I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world."
"If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before."
"Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that."
"We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party."
"The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers."
"Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change"
"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."
"When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one."
"There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India."