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

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

There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.

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.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

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.