Quotes About Leadership

It had taken three murders - Martin Luther King, Jr., and two Kennedys - to leave the country with this choice between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey.

Six years after that, I went to the White House with Wilma and watched as President Clinton and Hillary Clinton presented her with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. As she stood there, strong, kind, and not at all intimidated by another chief of state, I was not the only one in the audience who thought, She could be president. I also thought, In a just country, she would be.

For the future we should understand that this process of democratizing a state legislative system takes time. Changing a few faces is not enough, just as earning majority support of a legislator's constituents doesn't help if he has been put there by special interests. You have to be around long enough to out-organize the special interests, and change the legislature's leadership.

As King ended his speech, I heard Mahalia Jackson call out, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" And he did begin the "I have a dream" litany from memory, with the crowd calling out to him after each image—Tell it! What would be most remembered had been least planned. I hoped Mrs. Greene heard a woman speak up—and make all the difference.

as Senator Barbara Mikulski pointed out, "We're not a fad, a fancy, or a year.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren.

Carolyn Heilbrun's

As we explained our idea of teaching Gandhian tactics to women's movements, she listened to us patiently, sitting and rocking on her veranda, sipping tea. When we were finished, she said, 'Well, of course, my dears. We taught him everything we knew.

They also saw her expertise. For instance, George Soros, the Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist, introduced her in his Manhattan living room by saying, "Hillary knows more about Eastern Europe than any other American." After she was elected to the U.S. Senate on her own merits, she worked constructively, even with old enemies there, and was solidly reelected to a second term.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren." They

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren." They wanted Hillary Clinton because she supported the majority interests of women. On

In Austin, Texas, an eighty-year-old Black woman said she was supporting Hillary because "I've seen too many women who earned it, and too many young men who came along and took it.

You white women, Mrs. Greene said kindly, as if reading my mind, if you don't stand up for yourselves, how can you stand up for anybody else?

The New York Times op-ed page changed it to "Women Are Never Front-Runners.

The aim is not to be better than everyone else, it is to make everyone else better.

The great are ordinary people who act in a great way.

The master of life is a master of truth.

The most powerful man is the most steadfast in truth.

Para que la obra más grande de todas se realice, un solo ingenio les basta a mil manos.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.