The president of the United States from the 1940s until 2017 was considered the leader of the free world - probably the most powerful person in the world - not simply in terms of America's military might but in terms of the moral authority of the president. Donald Trump has largely abdicated that.
No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.
I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.
As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.
An effective leader is able to reach people in their natural environment and extract their experiences and knowledge about the issues that impact them.
A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.
To many American Jews, it is a truism that Barack Obama was the anti-Israel president. It was Mr. Obama who signed the Iran deal, which Israel portrayed as a mortal danger. It was Mr. Obama whose most contentious relationship with a foreign leader was with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
I like to think of myself as a leader whose door is always open. But I recently learned that an open door isn't enough.
John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.