Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.
I've always been stubborn.
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.