#lead

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#back #barack #barack obama #believed #bet

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers. ↗

— Pat Williams

#cheerleaders #cheers #home #last #last year

Education is the mother of leadership. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#leadership #mother

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#creatures #dead #dependent #land #leading

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. ↗

— Henry Winkler

#down #everything #inner #inner voice #instinct

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#comforting #fact #got #high #high places

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is. ↗

— Evan Rachel Wood

#always #fact #leaders #lives #need

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#confined #deal #education #forces #fundamental

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bound #come #even #get #government