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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

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.

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

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.However, it is short-lived and fatal.

I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

There was both love and despair in his voice. He was truly handicapped when it came to emotions, and falling in love hadn't changed that.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.