Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.

I knew that there were several among African-American leaders who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Of course Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

No matter how vast how total the failure of man here on earth the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that but man's front embraces the whole universe.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.