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George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been…

— Andrew Ridgeley

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of…

— Rich Lowry

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly,…

— Nelson Mandela

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity…

— George Bernard Shaw

I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those…

— Benjamin F. Wade

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's…

— Barbara Mikulski

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

— Helmut Schmidt

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power…

— Claud Cockburn

People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are…

— Eric Burdon

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them…

— Thomas Jefferson

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of…

— Eric Hoffer