One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.

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.

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.

If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.

This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

I'm not psychic myself.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.

Good managers have a bias for action.