“I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.”

“The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.”

“I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.”

“The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.”

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

“It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.”

“Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.”

“America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.”

“I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.”