Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.
In America, public opinion is the leader.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Leadership does not depend on being right.
Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.
You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.
These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.