Political Leader Quotes · Page 5

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to…

— Kumi Naidoo

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

— Frances Beinecke

The public wants to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.

— Priti Patel

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

— Carly Fiorina

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

— Irving Layton

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925-…

— Margaret Thatcher

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

— Mark Shields

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On…

— Gerald R. Ford

It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the…

— Pentti Linkola

There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people…

— Caroline Lucas

For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to…

— Adolf Hitler

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But there is another casualty as well: trust. As conflict escalates, trust…

— Peter Maurer

Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they…

— Jan Egeland

“I have never bought into the bullshit theory of acceptable losses. We have the technology, the talent, the aggressiveness, and the expertise…

— Howe U.S. Army Retired, MSG Paul R

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and…

— Alice Miller

“Many supporters believe--or want to believe--that Obama will be a transformative political leader in a transformative time. They eagerly await the flowering…

— Clarence Lusane

My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're…

— Geert Wilders

I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of…

— Amos Oz

We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today's political leaders are still lacking of the vision. They very…

— Ai Weiwei

“These times, indeed all times, demand national political leaders who know not only our history but the history of the world and…

— Harold G. Moore

Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to…

— Dale Jamieson

I think whenever Ahmadinejad opens his mouth in forums, especially in front of the U.N. General Assembly, those that are listening, especially…

— Karim Sadjadpour

Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very…

— Noam Chomsky

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

— James Hansen

I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

— Dale Murphy

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

— Jonathan Sacks

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

— Mike Quigley

The E.U. elections provide an opportunity for the people of the United Kingdom to knock some sense into the heads of their…

— Gina Miller

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

— Michael Pollan

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

— David Suzuki

Political leaders are not and cannot reasonably be expected to be indifferent to the cruelest calumnies aimed at their character.

— John McCain

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

— Oliver DeMille

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are…

— Pete du Pont

We must always strive for greater heights at the town council level to continue building the public's confidence in alternate political leaders.

— Pritam Singh

We have a profound lack of diversity at the highest levels in our political leadership and it has always been the case.

— Annamie Paul

Appeal for votes should not be made on basis of caste, creed, or communal. In a healthy democracy, this is not expected…

— Rajnath Singh

Putin has had many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia.

— Al Franken

“In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.”

— Mamur Mustapha