Amit Shah, in his speech at Davangere on 27 March 2018, which was published in The News Minute the next day https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/amit-shah-calls-siddaramaiah-ahindu-not-ahinda-cong-condemns-writes-ec-78659
2009, "The nation is waiting for a strong, experienced leader", 2009
Adnan Solaković http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/260/t26008.shtml
"Q & A: 'Joe the Plumber'" interview by Sarah Pulliam, in Christianity Today (May 2009) Web-only article
Warren Bennis (1999) Managing People Is Like Herding Cats. p. 89
1990s
Guest speech to the conference of the Fiji Labour Party, Lautoka, 30 July 2005
“People are born; leaders are made.”
Source: My Share Of The Task (2013), p. 393
Context: People are born; leaders are made. I was born the son of a leader with a clear path to a profession of leadership. But whatever leadership I later possessed, I learned from others. I grew up in a household of overt values, many of which hardened in me only as I matured. Although history fascinated me, and mentors surrounded me, the overall direction and key decisions of my life and career were rarely impacted by specific advice, or even a particularly relevant example I'd read or seen. I rarely wondered What would Nelson, Buford, Grant, or my father have done? But as I grew, I was increasingly aware of the guideposts and guardrails that leaders had set for me, often through their examples. The question became What kind of leader have I decided to be? Over time, decisions came easily against that standard, even when the consequences were grave.
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
2010s, Update on Investigations in Ferguson (2015)
As quoted in Omar the Great : The Second Caliph Of Islam (1962) by Muhammad Shibli Numani, Vol. 2, p. 33
Context: Remember, I have not appointed you as commanders and tyrants over the people. I have sent you as leaders instead, so that the people may follow your example. Give the Muslims their rights and do not beat them lest they become abused. Do not praise them unduly, lest they fall into the error of conceit. Do not keep your doors shut in their faces, lest the more powerful of them eat up the weaker ones. And do not behave as if you were superior to them, for that is tyranny over them.
“I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war [in Vietnam] than the people have been told.”
As quoted in Los Angeles Times (16 October 1967)
1960s
