Political Leaders Quotes

Political Leaders Quote of the day

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

Future U.S. political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

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.

Political leaders have to withstand headwinds.

Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

Few things reveal more about political leaders and their systems than the manner of their downfall.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.

I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.