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Barack Obama Politician
Leader

"The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America."

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Barack Obama Politician
Leader

"Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years."

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Barack Obama Politician
Leader

"It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation."

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Pat Williams Sports Executive
Leader

"There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me."

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Paul Johnson Journalist, Author
Leader

"It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections"

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Paul Ryan Politician
Leader

"I think what matters is that we have to show people that we are an inclusive society that-that-that we want everyone to succeed. And I think there's more that all of us as leaders have got to do to be inclusive with people and make people feel like they're included in society."

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Pete Carroll Football Coach
Leader

"I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Leader

"Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'"

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Leader

"Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Leader

"Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao."

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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
Leader

"The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values.""

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Elif Safak Author
Leader

"Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation."

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