“Obama is thoroughly mixed up with all these things he's got. He's got to solve Libya. He's got to solve Afghanistan. He's everywhere. And this nation, I don't know why it's not showing the leadership and capacity to attend different issues at the same time.”

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”

“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”

“Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.”

“This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.”

“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.”

“Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.”

“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.”

“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”

“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”

“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.”

“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”

“I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.”

“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

“We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.”

“But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.”

“Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.”

“Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.”

“The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.”

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”