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Quotes About Leadership

Politics is the art of anesthesia.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sürü! Senin ilk görevin çoban?ndan kurtulmakt?r!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The rabbis of the Talmud opined that Saul failed as a leader because there were no scandals in his past, that he lacked skeletons in his closet to keep him wary. By that measure, our leaders of today are brilliantly qualified, but it seems to me that Saul's failure came from elsewhere. He failed because Samuel and David wounded him fatally, not only by their actions but by their presence, by their very nature and his.
~ Meir Shalev
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
~ Mel Brooks
Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.
~ Mel Brooks
If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.
~ Mel Brooks
The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.
~ Unknown
the leader of a so-called democracy who ignores the will of the majority or fears criticism of his actions must resort to slinking in the shadows and to tightly controlling access to himself and to his ministers. Such is Stephen Harper's government.
~ Unknown
With the next diarmadhi, he'd wait to inspect and question before ordering the execution.
~ Melanie Rawn
Suddenly one of the huge front doors swings open. A black teenager impeccably dressed in morning coat and bow tie emerges ... 'Good morning, I am Derrick Noble, president of the student body. Welcome to Central High School.
~ Unknown
I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.
~ Melina Marchetta
But you pashed Jonah Griggs and he's the leader of the enemy.
~ Melina Marchetta
They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.
~ Melina Marchetta
So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
~ Melina Marchetta
And at last Finnikin understood why he had felt so sorrowful and silent these last few days. He knew how to be Finnikin of the Rock to Evanjalin of the Monts. But he had no idea who to be to Queen Isaboe.
~ Melina Marchetta
Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.
~ Melina Marchetta