Adlai Stevenson Leadership Quotes

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, "He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.