quotes about Great Leadership

“We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.”

“A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.”

“Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?”

“They will speak of things that are spiritual and beautiful and of things that are practical and utilitarian; they will mix up angels and engines, sunsets and spark plugs, fraternity and frequencies in one all-encompassing comradeship of interests that makes for the best and most lasting kind of friendship any man can have.”

“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA

“Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.”

“It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.”

“The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.”

“From the   5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being   indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the   left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are   scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the   destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,   thrills, and self-indulgence.”