Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed? Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.