At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

I think it's particularly raw coming the day after the Electoral College, and Bill Clinton, he's taking this hard. It's been very hard to him. He thought his wife was gonna win. He believed she should have won. I think he believes, basically, it was an unfair result.

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.