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"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
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"Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration."

"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"

"Humility is the fundamental principle that builds up greatness. Arrogance on the other hand never brings anything good. When you are humble, you'll learn to become better."

"If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice."

"One of the most common areas where we fail is when we begin to think that genetic make-up of a person determines how far he can lead". Leadership is learnt and practiced!"

"What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession."

"Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area of calling."

"To become a better you, never let the attitude of pride linger around your ambitions."

"A leader without a clear vision and plans only abuses his power because visions, dreams and plans are the fulcrum along which the loads of success will spine by your own efforts. And where power is abused, there is manipulation instead of inspiration."

"Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice."
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"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."

"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."

"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."

"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."

"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."

"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."

"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."

"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."

"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
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