Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodo...
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
He who is flexible masters the day.
Why do we adults complicate that which is so simple.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
There are no perfect leaders.
Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.
Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
Dead or alive, true leaders can inspire an entire army.
Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.
