In a candidate for president, Which quality do you feel is most important?

Question

1. Integrity

2. Intelligence

3. Experience

4. Other

Are there any specific reasons why? Do you think a candidate could still be a good leader ever if they were missing one or more of these qualities?

Answer 1

I'd go with 1. I will not vote for anybody who evades questions or who fails to look for the right solution and just looks for however to expand the government. We don't need another lying warmonger and we don't need somebody who is looking to expand government wherever they can.

That's why I can't support any of the frontrunners that the media likes. They're dodging questions, lying, flip-flopping, and not looking for the right answers.

Answer 2

In America the most important quality for a candidate is the ability to raise money. Honesty, integrity, experience, and so on bears no meaning in American politics. Money is the end all and be all of who runs this country. I ask anyone to name one honest president in the last 50 years. Jimmy Carter was the closest thing to being honest. He wasn't a good leader though.

Answer 3

Honesty and integrity go hand in hand, a person needs both. Experience, overrated. Helpful but not necessary. Intelligence doesn't hurt either, see current President. To me one of the best assets a Presidential candidate can have is the ability to elevate those around them with hope.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

4. Other- the president must be able to ignore the polls and and put the country's best interest first. A first term president's #1 priority should not be becoming a second term president.

Answer 6

Knowledge of past events; more importantly the ability to use that knowledge to successfully and proffessionally make a plan for future operations and policies.

Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
~Vernon Cooper
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~Martin Fischer

Experience

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~Edith Wharton

Leadership

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
~Faye Wattleton

Judgement

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
~Robert Coles
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
~Isaac Isimov

Individuality/Strong-minded

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
~Archibald Macleish

When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
~Dale Carnegie

The ability to seperate his/her emotions from the facts and whats best for the US and the World as a whole.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
~David Borenstein
It's better to feed one cat than many mice.
~unknown (Norwegian Proverb)

Persistance

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
~Ulysses S. Grant

Planning

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
~Thomas Alva Edison

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
~Napoleon Hill

Service/Dedication/Pride

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
~John F. Kennedy

Patriotism

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
~Nathan Hale

Respect

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
~William J. H. Boetcker

A great speaking ability

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
~Brendan Francis

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~Marlene Dietrich

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Please tell me one of those attributes above John McCain hasen't already shown himself of having... Expressing relentless patriotism while serving in the Armed Forces before being taken as a POW for 5 1/2 years during the Vietnam War.

Answer 7

Integrity, the rest will follow. If you do the right thing and surround yourself with the right people you can lead.

Answer 8

Intelligence.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8330785186475532150&q=Bush+bloopers&hl=en

Which Bush obviously lacks. Check the video, you'll laugh your face off.

Answer 9

Honesty.

If a person has a history of lying, or flip-flopping....they won't get my vote.

Answer 10

getter done.............................