It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that from top to bottom everyone feels part of the team.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Year after year President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities loyalties interests and policies.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

France after the month of May will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which on many subjects has tended to take useful positions in our view.

I look for what needs to be done. After all that's how the universe designs itself.

It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.