The position of President of the United States carries with it a tremendous trust. In my judgement, an inescapable trust...you can't divorce private behavior from public leadership. I don't think it is asking too much of any public officer to stand tall, be a model before the people, not only in ordinary aspects of leadership, but in the manner in which he conducts himself...If you don't establish values at the top and live by those values, you seriously jeopardize behavior down below in the ranks...Is it asking too much of our public servants to not only make of this nation the greatest nation on the earth politically, militarily, but also to give moral leadership to the world?
President Gordon B. Hinckley (on Larry King Live 9/8/98)
Published in Church New 9/12/98
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