Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry A. Kissinger

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Henry A. Kissinger

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Norman Borlaug

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
George W. Bush

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John W. Gardner

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.
Thabo Mbeki

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.
Sarah Palin

Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
George Soros

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.
Steve Wozniak

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
Oriana Fallaci

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
Warren G. Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
Warren G. Bennis

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Warren G. Bennis