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Today's Anniversary - 22nd May

Births

• 1974 - A. J. Langer
• 1966 - Kenny Hickey
• 1939 - Paul Winfield
• 1927 - George Andrew Olah
• 1938 - Richard Benjamin

Deaths

• 1898 - Edward Bellamy
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• 1922 - Elizabeth David

• Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.

  George Will

  Topics in Leadership

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  Swami Kriyananda

  Topics in Leadership, Opportunity

• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  George W. Bush

  Topics in Country, Leadership

• We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

  George Soros

  Topics in Humanity, Leadership

  Tags in National Interest

• The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

  Cyril Falls

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Exercise, Capacity

• The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

  Tom Lantos

  Topics in Job, Leadership
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  A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.

  Eleanor Rosalynn Carter

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Necessarily, Great

• I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the ‘Today’ programme and item four on the news was: ‘The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.’ I lay there thinking that’s interesting, then I realised it was me.

  George Osborne

  Topics in Experience, Leadership

• With King Abdullah’s leadership and his people’s trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

  Sultan bin Abdulaziz

  Topics in Leadership, Trust
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  When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Topics in Leadership, Power

  Tags in Hero, Exhausted

• We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

  Tom Coburn

  Topics in Leadership

• Leadership is influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Topics in Influence, Leadership

• My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

  Sonny Perdue

  Topics in Leadership

• House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

  Adam Pascal

  Topics in Family, Leadership

  Tags in American

• We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Offer

• This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Leadership, Work

• When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

  Gennaro Angiulo

  Topics in Leadership

• It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It’s time for a plan to bring our troops home.

  Sherrod Brown

  Topics in Leadership, Past

  Tags in Time

• Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

  Sherrod Brown

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Congress

• Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

  Thomas Menino

  Topics in Leadership