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Tom Carper: “Leadership has been defined as the courage to stay out of step when everyone else is marching to the wrong tune.”

On the recordFebruary 24, 2015
Leadership has been defined as the courage to stay out of step when everyone else is marching to the wrong tune.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper defines leadership as having the courage to make right choices.

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