#leader

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#comes #despotic #elected #general #hateful

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#dictators #i #islamic #islamic world #khomeini

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#age #century #end #having #leaders

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#behind #consequences #electorate #forced #government

I'm disappointed that Senator DeWine once again chose to go along with his party leaders and their big corporate lobbyist supporters. Ohio deserves a Senator who will be more than a rubber stamp. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#along #big #chose #corporate #deserves

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#believes #bring #conservative #continuing #eastern

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#doing #europe #exercised #expand #foundation

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head. ↗

— James Buchan

#arab #both #defended #end #felt

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#black #cause #character #claim #far