Believe Quote by Michael Beschloss

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly…

— Jim Leach

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's…

— Donald Kagan

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can…

— Norman Lear

The American model of leadership is critical in the world, and when we aren't involved, the models that fill the vacuum are not always…

— Colin Allred

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe…

— Rachel Maddow

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or…

— Pearl S. Buck

It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The…

— Noam Chomsky

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

— Gary Johnson

Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.

— Myles Munroe

Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when…

— Hillary Clinton

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach