#lead

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial. ↗

— Jean O'Leary

#controversial #effective #gay #gay rights #i

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#go #growth #had #happened #hasn

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. ↗

— Barack Obama

#better #debate #debt #debt limit #deserve

My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#came #christ #christian #christian faith #church

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. ↗

— Barack Obama

#degrees #drive #eat #expect #going

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do. ↗

— Barack Obama

#anything #believe #just #leaders #possible

If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world. ↗

— Barack Obama

#barack obama #black #choice #free #free world

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. ↗

— Barack Obama

#appreciate #europe #failure #leading #leading role

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. ↗

— Barack Obama

#abraham lincoln #founder #leader #lincoln #our

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980. ↗

— William Odom

#arab #because #bin #destroy #however