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Quotes About Leaders

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
It is our duty as states, citizens, and industry leaders to make the energy transition a reality with the ultimate aim of reconciling two major priorities: to meet ever-increasing demand and to confront the complex issue of climate change.
~ Christophe de Margerie
The Umbrella Movement can be described as an encyclopedia. Politicians and student leaders wrote it, and let the masses read it and react passively.
~ Joshua Wong
It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings or doing the bipartisan, substantive work Israel needs.
~ Ronny Jackson
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The U.N. and other international bodies, along with wealthier nations, could manage the unavoidable migration from poorer countries if there were greater focus on stopping the larger chaos created by leaders who finance and support terrorism in the name of Islam.
~ Richard Grenell
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
~ Sarah Vowell
So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had in their field.
~ Kenneth C. Griffin
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
~ Craig Kilborn
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.
~ Virginia Woolf
The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.
~ John Steinbeck
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
~ Howard Zinn, Just War
Ben-Gurion and Moshe Dayan were self-proclaimed atheists.
~ Tariq Ali
Los ciudadanos corrompidos incuban gobernantes corruptos, y es la multitud la que, a fin de cuentas, decide cuándo ha de morir la virtud».
~ Taylor Caldwell
Government leaders should get up to speed on the blockchain by understanding it first and committing to exploring its potential.
~ William Mougayar
My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.
~ David Plouffe
China's hyper-growth is causing the world's most populous nation to spin out of the control of its leaders.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.
~ Henry Kissinger
Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled. After all that, you'd think only one definition for truth should exist in this world, but no.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
their black skin. Further affirming such concepts of black inferiority was a steady stream of authoritative statements by LDS leaders and spokesmen brought forth from the 1830s to the early 1970s.3 Such controversial assertions notwithstanding, major aspects of this thesis has since been incorporated, all or in part, by subsequent scholars in their own studies of Mormonism and race.4 ******************
~ Newell Bringhurst
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov