"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique." ― James MacGregor Burns Topic(s): Leadership More From James MacGregor Burns "Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership." More In Leadership "Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance – but then they forget to direct you."― Samantha Morton "If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard."― Nathan Deal "We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."― Zbigniew Brzezinski