At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

- Anna Maria Chavez

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

- Amos Oz

I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.

- Alva Myrdal

I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

- Alcee Hastings

Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

- Azim Premji

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

- Abu Bakar Bashir

Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.

- Atul Gawande

I believe that Israel is much stronger than many of its leaders.

- Ariel Sharon

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

- Andrew Ross Sorkin

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.

- Ashton Kutcher

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day.

- Ann Richards

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

- Ann Coulter

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

- Amy Chua

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

- Al Sharpton

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.

- Al Franken

America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.

- Adam McKay