In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
Leadership is something I was born with.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.
To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you...
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and...
