If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the leader.
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.
Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.
You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.
I've been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I've been, I've worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I've never looked beyond that.
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
