But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political 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.
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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.
I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
I think that would be ungrateful if I were upset because I'm seen as attractive or sexy. That's opened so many doors for me in my life.
Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
