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.

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.

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.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won’t hurt me whatcha gonna try next?

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.