Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

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.

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

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.

May the living have hope.

I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

To see where something leads, it's best to wait until you've reached the end.

I don't say anything wacky about women. I have more respect for women than anybody would understand and I'm going to give people jobs and I'm going to protect people.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

The shoulder surgery was a success. The lobotomy failed.

I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.