Quotes for All
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. Daisaku Ikeda
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions. Condoleezza Rice
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
I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government. Carly Fiorina
Pakistan’s political leadership needs to make a clear choice to fight the Taliban decisively, not with half measures, the burden is on Prime Minister Sharif to show he can unite the country to defend its children. Bruce Riedel
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Aung San Suu Kyi
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line. Arthur Miller
We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not. Ralph Peters
The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, … Read more
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. Buckminster Fuller