Top 100 World Leader Sayings
#1. Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we
the white race
have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
Gore Vidal
#2. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.
Bill Nye
#3. As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
Christopher Dodd
#4. Folks would discuss whether the Antichrist was already alive and, if so, which world leader it might be.
J.D. Vance
#5. Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.
Mike Ferguson
#6. Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.
Joe Biden
#7. During the Clinton administration, America's image was that of a strong, confident and kind world leader.
Mike Medavoy
#8. On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.
John F. Tierney
#9. The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.
Paul Johnson
#10. Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
Cate Blanchett
#11. Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.
Rose George
#12. As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.
Shashi Tharoor
#13. If George Bush can't get along with Stephen Harper, he can't get along with any world leader. They're ideological cousins, if not twins.
David Taras
#14. Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
Charles M. Blow
#15. It's just a bit annoying when a man you've only just met thinks you're planning to assassinate a world leader. It puts a downer on your whole day. You start wondering who else people think you're secretly planning to kill.
Danny Wallace
#16. America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.
David Brooks
#17. As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world
Salil Shetty
#18. Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.
Jimmy Fallon
#19. I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'
Mike Wallace
#20. We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.
Robert Mueller
#21. Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.
Barack Obama
#22. Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A
Norman Doidge
#23. One world leader warned another the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.
Ron Suskind
#24. When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.
Nancy Pelosi
#25. We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.
Rick Larsen
#26. Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II . Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?
Chris Matthews
#27. One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
Robert Harris
#28. I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
Darrell Hammond
#29. You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.
Tadao Ando
#30. I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
Dan Lipinski
#31. America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
Rand Paul
#32. The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#33. I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
Neale Donald Walsch
#34. We believe SpaceX will become the world leader in space transport, and we want our investors to be part of that future.
Luke Nosek
#35. Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.
Julie Bishop
#36. I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.
James K. Glassman
#37. On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
Natan Sharansky
#38. We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.
Francis John McConnell
#39. The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.
Peter Morgan
#40. But how reassuring it was for us, you remember, every now and then ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"), to vibrate to the music of the very heartstrings of the Leader of the Free World who, to qualify convincingly as such, had after all to feel a total commitment to the Free World.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#41. As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#42. Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food, and Dan Quayle confused with a national political leader, masochists are clearly less mixed-up than the rest of us.
P. J. O'Rourke
#43. In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#44. Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God.
Radhe Maa
#45. It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.
Cornel West
#46. Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him ... a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.
Hal Lindsey
#47. It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.
Mohammad Khatami
#48. A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.
Henry Cloud
#49. The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
Richard Louv
#50. A great responsibility to bring and give
a new way of watching to the world.
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#51. Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#52. Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
Cesar Millan
#53. If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.
John C. Maxwell
#54. I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.
George Galloway
#55. I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#56. I don't think it's possible to skip with a frown on your face ... I'd like to see the world's governing and terrorist leaders on a skipping tour through the Middle East and across the subcontinent and China to Korea.
Bindi Irwin
#57. Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#58. The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.
Kofi Annan
#59. So today, we call upon the world leaders to change their strategic policies in favor of peace and prosperity. We call upon the world leaders that all of these deals must protect women and children's rights. A deal that goes against the rights of women is unacceptable.
Malala Yousafzai
#60. The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#61. The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty
Gyan Nagpal
#62. As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
Jo Ann Emerson
#63. If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.
Nick Clegg
#64. In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.
Jennifer Garvey Berger
#65. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
Buddha
#66. The fact was that I had always been considered a leader in my scholastic career. It just never dawned on me that this was any kind of preparation for the business world. Like most young women of my background and education, I always performed on demand and never anything else.
Geraldine Stutz
#67. She single-handedly stocked Leta's entire wardrobe, and although the clothes were flashier than I would normally prefer, I didn't see the harm in having a daughter dressed like a mini Avon World Sales Leader. Plus, we could use the money we saved on baby clothes to buy more chocolate.
Heather B. Armstrong
#68. It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.
Jimmy Carter
#69. I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Alice Walker
#70. This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
Howard Dean
#71. I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
Julie Bowen
#72. A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.
Leo Hindery
#73. There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'
Michelle Bachelet
#74. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
Howard Dean
#75. The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.
Hugo Chavez
#76. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.
Jaha Knight
#77. When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.
Howard Zinn
#78. Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle
Radhe Maa
#79. All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me
Kameron Hurley
#80. I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.
Richard Branson
#81. With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.
Evo Morales
#82. The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
Henry Ford
#83. World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.
George Ogilvie
#84. What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader ... Let us become a real servant instead.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#85. A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Geena Davis
#87. Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.
Tim DeChristopher
#88. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#89. It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
Norm Coleman
#90. A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.
Bob Chiarelli
#91. It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.
Vladimir Putin
#92. Now personally, I think the president should golf every day and never have a press conference. I want the leader of the free world to be as stress-free as possible. And if golf helps fade the psychic heat from the job, by all means tee it up often, Mr. President.
Mark McKinnon
#93. I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met ... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
Tracy Kidder
#94. Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova
#95. The United States is the leader of the free world.
Elizabeth Dole
#96. We don't recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.
Craig Groeschel
#97. I am the master of my destiny, the leader of my actions,
the dictator of my world for the power lives in me and no
one else.
Christina OW
#98. Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
#99. I don't think America should be the policeman of the world, but we have to be engaged and we have to be a leader, and that comes from strong economic growth, a strong military, good diplomatic efforts, and integrating our business community. I just think it's a whole new paradigm.
John Kasich
#100. The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.
Pele
