I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

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.

He's the most recognizable American rider in the sport today. At the races men women and children crowd around the Discovery bus to see George. He's the leader of this team.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity their talents in the construction of the state will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments not the guides of the people.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing more to fear from them then he is always stirring up some war or other in order that the people may require a leader.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead, a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

In making this acquisition of Business Wire we have followed our blueprint of buying profitable companies that are industry leaders yet have significant growth potential.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are how much your contribution has been valued what massive potential you have and in recognition of all this would you mind having your salary halved.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

When the best leader's work is done the people say 'We did it ourselves.'

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Of course there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I along with many other world leaders have embraced that goal and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

We can be successful leaders only if we are disciplined followers who do not issue commands to others but rather set an example of service in our actions.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss; in the Republican Party he is a leader.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob, all authority is equally bad.

Study the lives of our great women who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

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.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall " a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.