In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
