I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
President Ford was a devoted decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades because elected leaders fail to deliver.
With gridlock the norm Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.
I knew that there were several among African-American leaders who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
Of course Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.
When you experience a failure as a leader don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
No matter how vast how total the failure of man here on earth the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that but man's front embraces the whole universe.
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting then I realised it was me.