We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

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.

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.

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

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

He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn’t have yards or even feet of success to show off.

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.

I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.