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«In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.»
Author: Irving Layton
| Keywords:
assassination, Canada, Pierre, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, political leader
«Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.»
Author: Martin Gardner
(Calligrapher, Mathematician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
altered, biographical, compulsive, currents, flotsam, generals, General Public, historical, jetsam, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, largely, mentioned, paranoid, paranoids, Political history, political leader, public schools, Queens, radically, scientists, voyager, voyagers
«What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.»
«What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States . . .»
Author: William Blum
| Keywords:
grounds, hypocrisy, immediate, justification, political leader, retaliation, slip, social action, social injustice, terrorism, terrorists
«A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.»
«I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.»
Author: Aneurin Bevan
(Politician)
| Keywords:
calculating, calculating machine, desiccated, desiccates, labour, Labour Party, political leader, political machine, the Labour Party
«All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Dancing,
Leadership,
Mankind
| Keywords:
arisen, blundered, blundering, blunders, dancing, failures, fill, Great Books, ills, lack, leaders, mankind, misfortunes, political, Political history, political leader, skill, The History, tragic
«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.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| Keywords:
exaggerated, gospel, political leader, priests, serving, Social gospel, temporal
«Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Leadership,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
actuated, altruistic, causing, large numbers, political leader
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