“Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.”

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

“But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.”

“To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.”

“I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.”

“I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.”

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”