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I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

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

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

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

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.