Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
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.
One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.