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From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

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.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

The sky cannot have two suns.

He is great enough that is his own master.

God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

When you're leading, don't talk.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.