Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
