Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.
The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also a company commander in Korea, so I had some sense of how powerful authority can be. How dangerous it can be.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
I have no fear of losing the throne through revolution because I could always get a job in the United States as an [locomotive] engineer or college professor.
The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence.
Charismatic leaders who lead you off cliff's would be better off for everyone if they were not charismatic leaders.
