Leadership Conflict Quotes

Heaven cannot support two suns, nor earth two masters, nor Asia two kings

Leaders glare at each other across the chasm of misunderstanding.

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

When there are three leaders to look up to, who exactly should I follow?

The Chinese military is on a different page from the Chinese civilian leadership.

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.

Would you please tell Sinclair to go home and let me run the country.

I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.

I am the president of the sorority and I'm sure there are plenty of people I've pissed off enough to go on a killing spree.

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

In the fullness of time, every President ends up hating his Vice President.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

I am upset at the way I was removed... With a heavy heart, I resign from the primary membership of the AAP.

There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

The Workers (Communist) Party of America has been for many years an organization of foreign workers not much connected with the political life of the country. Owing to this immigrant exclusiveness two leading groups arose.... For six years an almost uninterrupted struggle for supremacy in the party has been going on between them. The struggle was, in the main, not based on principles ... principles served chiefly to camouflage the struggle for supremacy.

BJP was a strong force before I differed and left.