article_snippet.sent: It required big ideas, going against the status quo and tuning out those who worry only about protecting their own special interests.
article_snippet.sent: Great leaders are not primarily guided by polls, political parties, focus groups, re-election, special interests or protecting the status quo.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Great leaders bring teams of people together, challenge Great leaders to innovate and engage both sides to work together to fashion solutions based on common sense and the common good.
article_snippet.sent: Given the polarizing issues facing America, America needs a leader who believes in a common set of fundamental values necessary to bring about change that will unite America without being blinded by the many distractions that ego, selfishness and power produce.
article_snippet.sent: Leaders who focus only on Leaders who focus only on themselves and their own good and Leaders who focus only on themselves and their own good own good have rejected this value-driven approach and make it impossible to make progress on our most pressing issues such as balanced budgets, tax cuts, welfare reform, border security, immigration and health care.
article_snippet.sent: There are certain values that guide great countries: .
article_snippet.sent: These values allow us to develop policy solutions that solve problems in new and creative ways for the good of all Americans instead of producing rhetoric, sound bites and press releases that too often pass for true reform.