This – the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery. – Marc Morial
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. – Michael Pollan
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. – Nelson Mandela
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. – David Miliband
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think its in our unity that well have the greatest strength. – Woody Harrelson
Its funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House thats causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, its in the Bush Administration. – Roger Ebert
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. – Mikhail Bakunin
