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

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

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.

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

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.