11.   Conservatives are guaranteed a place in the inner circle, according to several sources, even if the leadership has to create an appointed post to accommodate them.

12.   Democrats maintained the Republican leadership simply had no appetite for a hate crimes bill and were threatening to attach dozens of controversial amendments on such issues as abortion.

13.   Even so, the political leadership has no choice but to attack the racial divide in the country.

14.   For a variety of reasons, the leadership has had to change with the times.

15.   Frankly, I find the lawyer more entertaining but this weekend I concentrated on what the American leadership had to say.

16.   He said the AARP leadership had a hidden motive.

17.   If so, then the Chinese leadership might have no choice but to be obstructive in the U.N. over Kosovo.

18.   If we are to renew our culture and restore honor to the presidency, leadership will have to come from the top of the ticket.

19.   If Martin Luther King had been funded by federal grants, would his leadership have had the same moral impact?

20.   In Congress, the Republican leadership has almost nothing good to say about the role of government in public life.