There are numerous great leaders involved in the political arena as independents and "third party candidates." In the recent election, Jill Stein of the Green Party and Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party both ran solid national campaigns, showed leadership abilities, and stood for their principles.
In Maine, former governor Angus King won the senatorial election. After the election, he had an interview on National Public Radio that highlighted several leadership philosophies. Here are a couple excerpts.
My whole reason for going down there is to try to build bridges and get people talking to one another, and caucusing may be part of the process in order to participate fully in, you know, in committees and things like that, but I really think we got to get beyond this partisan stuff and we've got solve some problems.
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I don't want to sound corny about this, but I'm concerned about the country, and this fierce partisanship that we've seen is not serving public. And I worked in the Senate as a young staffer in the '70s and saw it actually work. I saw senators of both parties sit around the table, argue, disagree, agree, but finally reached consensus and passed important legislation. So it can happen.
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