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Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

A campaign is about defining who you are - your vision and your opponent's vision.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I think I know a lot about campaigns.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Leadership is something I was born with.

People look for their leadership to lead.