"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures"

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency"

"Character matters; leadership descends from character"

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party"

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity"

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it"

"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves"

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party"

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party"

"Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes"

"I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy"