Quotes About Leadership

I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about leadership, and to write tax and social policy articles. The act of writing is integral to who I am. I'm a writer, a politician, a tax attorney, a civic leader, and an entrepreneur. I am proud of what I've accomplished.

I think CSR, corporate social responsibility, is something that is becoming front and center.

Actors have a social responsibility.

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.

I've always believed that our public actions need to take account of our social responsibility.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

We are not socialists, we are Peronists. We are pragmatic.

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

I am not a socialist.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals.

Just as a doctor is important for saving lives, every IAS officer is important for societal development; he's like a messenger sent by God to serve the public.

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their leaders and their institutions. The gap between the ideal democracy and the existing one cannot be bridged.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.