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"Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency."
"A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders."
"The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives."
"During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton."
"The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them."
"I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures in that environment were Mahatma Gandhi, who had been assassinated shortly after I was born, but nevertheless dominated the collective psyche of the country. And of course there were other statesmen who were very much part of the culture we knew as well as looked upon by society as leaders, and mentors, and people that inspires us to have a vision for idealism."
"You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership."
"I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!"
"For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself."
"A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers."
"We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us."
"People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders."
"I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders."
"The head of the AFL-CIO endorsed John Kerry, saying, 'The time has come to come behind one man, one leader, one candidate.' Then he said, 'And until we find that man, we will endorse John Kerry.'"
"For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world."
"It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama."
"President [George] Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy."
"I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington."
"I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw."
"Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain."
