My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion. – N. R. Narayana Murthy
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did. – Dar Williams
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. – Chirlane McCray
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. – Felix Dennis
Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness. – Elizabeth Thornton
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders – leaders not compromised by terror. – Elliott Abrams
Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing. – Elliott Abrams
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged. – Frederick W. Smith
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the ‘crimes against the peace’ for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg. – Noam Chomsky
The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our ‘leaders’ are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. – Nathan Myhrvold
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be. – F. Sionil Jose
Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. – Christina Hoff Sommers
Marines and soldiers don’t issue themselves orders; they don’t send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas. – Phil Klay
I vote for leaders, and honestly, I didn’t vote much in the military because I served whoever is the commander-in-chief. – Michael T. Flynn
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. – Fidel Castro
In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us – the foreign leaders across the table – do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects. – Elliott Abrams
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. – Elizabeth Joan Smith
Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team, and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure. – Donald Trump
We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn’t be great businessmen. – Malcolm Gladwell
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren’t. Harry Truman wasn’t. – Michael Ignatieff
The CIA’s drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks. – Joby Warrick
For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy. – Lord Robertson