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Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate read more
Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who read more
Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
