Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or it’s really hard to catch.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Elections have a way of cooling passions, especially when voters get what they want.