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title: "6 Crisis Leadership Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [“We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-deresiewicz/we-have-a-crisis-of-leadership-in-america-because-our-overwhelming/)

[William Deresiewicz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-deresiewicz/)

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> [“The greatest crisis in America today is a crisis of leadership. And the greatest peril of leadership is a crisis of character.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-rigsby/the-greatest-crisis-in-america-today-is-a-crisis-of-leadership-and/)

[Rick Rigsby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-rigsby/)

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> [We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/we-also-can-t-try-to-take-over-and-rebuild-every-country-that-falls/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mo-ibrahim/there-is-a-crisis-of-leadership-and-governance-in-africa-and-we-must/)

[Mo Ibrahim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mo-ibrahim/)

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> [“Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum/today-s-arab-crisis-is-not-one-of-money-men-morale-land-or-resources/)

[Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum/)

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> [We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-rauch/we-don-t-have-a-crisis-of-leadership-in-washington-we-have-a-crisis/)

[Jonathan Rauch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-rauch/)

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