You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.
Interpretation
Good leadership requires honorable and committed individuals in public office.
The quote highlights the importance of having ethical and capable individuals in politics, asserting that while it may not be a surety for success, striving for such ideals is crucial. It emphasizes the role of integrity and commitment in governance, suggesting that the quality of leaders significantly impacts society and political outcomes.
In practice
A motivational speech about political engagement during a community meeting.
If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something - which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying - and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn't succeed; then you would just evaporate.
You need people who have their own views, whose views you respect, whom you can have a productive disagreement with, and work out ideas which you might not have come up with, or who improve on ideas you had.
Just as our forefathers saved and invested to build what we, the current generation, are enjoying today, so, too, we must plant trees so that our sons and daughters, and their sons and daughters, can enjoy the shade.
When people say they don't want a nanny state, they are, in fact, in a conflicted state of mind. On the one hand, they want to do whatever they want and not be stopped. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, they want to be rescued.
No government prospers by saying, 'I don't need to do anything. Just by being there, we have made the country thrive.'
Aligning private development with community needs for equity and resiliency is one of the most powerful roles of city government.
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common _x000D_ _x000D_ to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
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