Quote by Barack Obama
We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our hom

We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Thats not leadership. Thats not going to happen. – Barack Obama

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The future rewards those who press on. I dont have time to feel sorry for myself. I dont have time to complain. Im going to press on. – Barack Obama

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Future
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. – Barack Obama

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work
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And thats just not what the founders intended. – Barack Obama

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Government
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders. – John P. Kotter

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At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control. – Ellen Tauscher

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Leadership

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way. – Anna Deavere Smith

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Leadership

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. – Fredrik Bajer

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Leadership

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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The best thing Ive done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody. – Ice Cube

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Family

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins. – Carlos Santana

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Future

Money is just the poor mans credit card. – Marshall McLuhan

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Money