"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition"

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

"Character matters; leadership descends from character"

"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past"

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition"

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers"

"Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world"

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

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

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers"

"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting"