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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.

You have heard me say many times that I want strong leaders who feel free to express their opinions.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.