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Daniel Goldin
Space Exploration
My father always was there to help me understand you have to have something in here that guides you. You can't look for guidance over there or over there or over there. And, up until the time I was 25, I never appreciated what my father did for me. We fought. It makes me a little weepy just thinking about this tremendous conflict we had. But he never yielded, and I think that really helped me become a human being -- forget about a scientist -- to understand that my reference clock is in here, and I could do anything I believed I could do. I should do anything that I believe is right to do, and I think he helped me be a better human being.
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Daniel Goldin
Space Exploration
People have got to be given responsibility, clearly defined -- a contract if you will -- and say, "Here. I trust you. Let's sign this contract." People felt you can't do that because it will cause fear. It didn't cause fear. When you give someone a responsibility and authority, they don't mind being accountable. They step up. So, that's the other aspect. We had 85 people signing off on the shuttle before it's launched. If some one thing went wrong, who's responsible? You need that pride of ownership. So, contracts and measurements are absolutely key.
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Alberto Gonzales
Former Attorney General of the United States
Alberto Gonzales: You never like to say no to the President, but you have to. And maybe that's one of the reasons why the President likes to keep me around is because he knows that I'll be honest with him and tell him what I think. To be effective, to be an effective lawyer, either as Counsel or as Attorney General, you have to say no. And not no just to the President, but sometimes no to other cabinet officials, no to other members of the White House staff who want to pursue or push a particular agenda that's important for the President, and you've got to say, no, you can't do that, and so sometimes that's pretty tough. The other thing that's sometimes difficult is -- and this is a lesson that I've learned from our President is -- there are limits to what can be done, even for the Attorney General and even for a president. You do the best you can, and sometimes we see problems, and what I love about this job is, we can see a problem and throw the entire weight of the Department behind it, and often times we can get it solved or at least make progress in solving the problem. But there are some things that I know that are just -- I can't get solved, at least during my tenure as Attorney General. And I think you have to have sort of a maturity and a faith in knowing that you've done the very best you can, and at the end of the day you move on, comfortable in the knowledge that you've done your best.
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Alberto Gonzales
Former Attorney General of the United States
Alberto Gonzales: I think you have to have a vision about where you're going. You can't expect to bring others along with you if you don't know where you're going, I think that's very, very important. You have to be courageous, because you're going to be making some decisions that are going to be unpopular and you have to accept that. You cannot make decisions based upon what everyone is going to like, it just doesn't work that way. And so sometimes that happens, where you're going to be criticized. You know you're going to be criticized, but you know it's the right thing to do and you have to do it, and if you can't do that, you're not going to be an effective leader, as far as I'm concerned. I think loyalty is something that's also very, very important, and that's a lesson that I really have learned from our President. To inspire loyalty really motivates the troops. People want to serve, and they want to succeed. They want the agenda of our President to succeed because of the tremendous loyalty and affection that we hold for our leader, and I think that's really a very important trait that all successful leaders have.
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