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Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.
Mark Warner

Technology, Security, Defense

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
Daniel J. Evans

Career, Kinds, Movement

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
Tammy Baldwin

Work, Courage, Powerful

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.
Dennis Ross

Life, Struggle, Done

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Harriet Harman

Women, Men, Why

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

Government, Woman, Group

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
Zhu Rongji

Work, Good, Why

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.
Rau'Shee Warren

Mistakes, Try, Though

The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.
Stephanie Cutter

Strong, Two, Himself

I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.
Wesley Clark

She, Fantastic, Clinton

For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.
Marc Morial

Respect, Political, Ego

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.
Jeff Zucker

Working, Step, Worst

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
Renee Olstead

Cool, Tell, Speak

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.
Ruth J. Simmons

Nothing, Ambition, Worse

I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments; my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.
Tulsi Gabbard

Medical, Two, Military

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Woman, Scene, Candidate

Penn State is a leader in food science.
Don Sherwood

Food, Science, State

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova

Great, Forward, Move

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
Antony Jay

Judge, Job, Problem

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.
Peter L. Bergen

Through, Face, Blood

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
Tarsem Singh

Nature, True, Saying

You cannot be the leader of the free world and sit on the sidelines and tweet and think you're going to get the job done.
Kevin McCarthy

Job, Done, Cannot

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
Mary McDonnell

Important, Political, Done

You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up.
Lou Gerstner

Person, Sense, Fact

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.
Richard Trumka

Work, Care, Fight

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
Jo Ann Emerson

Losing, Risk, Reputation

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.
Gresham Barrett

Heart, End, Head

I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.
Pope Theodoros II

True, Put, Church

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
John Erskine

She, Knows, Goes

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
Harriet Harman

Future, Country, Big

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