There are no office hours for leaders

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We think of these leaders as being cultural icons. If the president is healthy and doing fine, it seems like the country is healthy and doing fine. But if he's ill or struck down, we feel like there is something wrong with us, and we want to know why it happened.

I am representing all union leaders and if I allow what happened to me to go untested, then any old group could band together and overthrow the decisions of their presidents,

A few years ago, a fellow professor stopped at my door and said, "You're here in your office more than my full-time colleagues," and I replied, "Writers don't retire, they just go out of print." With electronic publication, even that doesn't have to happen.