A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

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.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the read more

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

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.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

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.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to read more

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.