Leadership Quote by Jim Hodges

There is a sly self-defense baked into Hodges's neat symmetry: if the reactions are all over the map, it's because the work is, too. The line preempts the most common demand placed on public figures and their output - consistency, legibility, a brand you can summarize in a sentence. By pairing "broad range" with "broad range", he turns unpredictability into principle. Variety isn't a flaw; it's the point.

The intent feels less like bragging than insulation. "Reaction" is the uncontrollable variable in politics and culture alike: you can craft a bill, a speech, an image, but you can't script how it lands once it hits the room. Hodges quietly shifts responsibility away from the audience's volatility and onto his own practice, implying a kind of fairness: don't blame the public for being divided when the material itself refuses to sit still.

Subtext: a warning against simplistic readings. If you want one stable takeaway, you're asking the wrong artist - or the wrong politician. The phrase "work I make" is doing heavy lifting; it's not "what I say" or "what I believe", but work, manufactured, deliberate. That choice frames his output as constructed artifacts rather than spontaneous opinions, inviting critique of craft rather than character.

In context, the quote fits an era where every gesture is flattened into a hot take and every creator is expected to be a coherent product. Hodges argues for multiplicity as an ethic: the world is messy, so the work should be, too - and any public response that mirrors that messiness is not evidence of failure, but of fidelity to the project.