#political leader

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides. ↗

— Tony Blair

#decides #divides #end #goes #his

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#badly #cameron #david #government #i

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place. I could count the members of Congress on one hand that took these issues seriously. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#broad #congress #consensus #could #count

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#among #change #climate #help #leaders

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#field #gospel #illusion #interest #leaders

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#days #enough #groups #guided #individual

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democracy #disastrous #foolish #gloom #good

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #kind #know #labour #labour party

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#build #care #leader #lots #majority