"When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda."
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"We just can't let Donald Trump be the leader of this country. We can line up. We can be part of Hillary Clinton's effort to be the president of the United States and to help do the things we care about in this country - to really help build a future."
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"If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events."
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"Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own."
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"Fish recognize a bad leader."
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"When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming."
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"Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems."
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"It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse."
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"The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world."
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"Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform."
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"Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work."
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"Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations."
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"Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs."
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"I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me."
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"Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role."
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"I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political personalities were attacked, this means the situation is very grave. The true gravity of the situation comes from the fact that ordinary members of the NLD are repressed all the time. We don't want a completely paralyzed political organization, while a select few leaders are protected by international attention."
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"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent."
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"Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us"
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"Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change."
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"Kings fear change. Leaders crave it."
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