Rohini Nilekani Quotes

Our world desperately needs real leadership.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

We are an organization led by a purpose - to make a positive, meaningful impact that matters to everyone Deloitte touches. I will do my best to serve the network by helping enable our leaders and people to fulfill their passion to make a difference.

Rusbridger's intelligence, personal sense of higher calling and almost other-worldly self-absorption have played no small part in the stories that have most defined the Guardian and that, under another sort of steward, might have had a much more sceptical reception.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

National morality, by example and by persuasion, should begin at the White House and have the good influence to reach out to every corner of the land

The President was a responsibility beyond that of managing the government. He has a responsibility as a moral leader.

Christians must be conscious of their specific and proper role in the political community; they should be a shining example by their sense of responsibility and their dedication to the common good

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in this world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

Every problem we have in this country we created and we can fix it.

I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my performances, show them another world - in the case of '24,' to show them what a politician, black or white, should be. Basically, I wanted to be a service to others.