But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William J. Wilson

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
Franz von Papen

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
Haley Barbour

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
Peter Pace

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
Jeff Bingaman

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
Olympia Snowe

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis

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.
Chris Patten

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
Alan Dershowitz

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.
John Patrick

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
Chuck Hagel

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
Tom Coburn

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
Bill Kristol

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
Harriet Harman

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
Peter Pace

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Pete Domenici

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh