Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process supported by European countries at the same time.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
I think a major act of leadership right now call it a radical act is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together using our experiences.
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant given the context of any situation.
I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed when it is needed.
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership but raising children isn't. Hey it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That addressed as free-born autonomous men and women of God-given dignity they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.