The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China becomes the world's largest economy, there is meaningful public pressure for its power status to advance in parallel. Any alternative would be humiliating.
— Noah Feldman
It's only under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership that the country can foresee a bright future.
— Nirmala Sitharaman
In 1992, Bill Clinton ran on a platform of 'ending welfare as we know it.' His political worldview, drawn from like-minded thinkers at the Democratic Leadership Council, was based in private sector growth and personal responsibility.
— Nina Easton
I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.
— Nigel Farage
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
— Nguyen Cao Ky
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
— Newt Gingrich
We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
— Neil Sheehan
Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
— Nate Parker
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
— Nancy Pelosi
There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
— Nancy Gibbs
In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.
— Nahnatchka Khan
The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.
— N. Chandrababu Naidu
I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.
— Myles Munroe
By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.
— Murray Rothbard
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
— Monica Crowley
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.
— Mo Ibrahim
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
We have heard the Chinese refer to the Shangri-La Dialogue speech at various points. You have a lot of articulations about the top leadership itself about what is the spirit of India-China relations. There is a very clear understanding between the two countries about the defence relationship.
Courage breeds leadership.
— Nikki Haley
I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.
— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
— Nelson Mandela
I think there's a real calling out there for leadership and maybe the Bush family could fill the void. All of us have been bitten by the bug to do something some day in our lives to help others.
— Neil Bush
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
— Natan Sharansky
Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.
— Nancy Wilson
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
— Nancy Pearcey
My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment.
— Nancy Dubuc
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
If you listen to what Trump says, you will understand the hollowness. Even a top-ranking nation like America is having a leadership crisis.
You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.
— Mwai Kibaki
As long as we can establish the bona fides of the leadership of Boko Haram, we are prepared as a government to discuss with them how to get the girls back. But we have not established any evidence of a credible leadership.
— Muhammadu Buhari
American presidential leadership never goes out of style.
For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.
The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.
— Nnamdi Asomugha
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.
— Nigel Hamilton
There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.
— Nick Saban
This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
— Nancy Lublin
For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
— Najib Razak
Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
— Mo Rocca
