“After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.”

Don’t document bad code – rewrite it.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

The people that are surrounding me have my best interest.

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

American leaders worry about the security of their country. Israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, ‘I’m your leader!’ If it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you.