Quotes and Sayings about Political leaders
"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
- Abba Eban
(Related: Experience, Leaders, Political leaders)
"It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution."
- Jan Egeland
(Related: Time, Conflict, Fact, Fighting, Leaders, Old, Political leaders, Resolution)
"America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Trust, America, Country, Democracy, Fact, Leaders, Longing, Political leaders)
"Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in."
- Grace Napolitano
(Related: Facts, Leaders, Political leaders, Security, State, Will)
"ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders."
- Don Nickles
(Related: Future, Leaders, Political leaders)
"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Leadership, Ability)
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
- Pope John Paul II
(Related: Illusion, Interest, Leaders, Political leaders, Problems)
"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
- Michael Pollan
(Related: Leadership, Attention)
"Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people."
- Pete du Pont
(Related: Age, Thought, People, American, Baby, Leaders, Political leaders, Right)
"We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too."
- Sellapan Ramanathan
(Related: Children, Leaders, Political leaders, School, Tourists)
"We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded."
- Neil Sheehan
(Related: Leadership, Military)
"We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them."
- Mark Skousen
(Related: Change, People, Leaders, Political leaders)
"It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously."
- DeForest Soaries
(Related: Congress, Embarrassment, Leaders, Political leaders, Reform)
"The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed."
- Theodore C. Sorensen
(Related: People, Democracy, Leaders, Mistakes, News, Political leaders, Self)
"Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed."
- Jacques Verges
(Related: Enemies, Leaders, Political leaders, Public)
"I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing."
- Jim Wallis
(Related: Faith, Action, Values, Leaders, Martin, Political leaders, President, Want)