General Jim Mattis

And ladies, he wrote in the masculine tone of his time, so bear with it.

But he said, great men, great nations have not been boasters and buffoons, rather they have

perceived the terror of life and manned themselves to face it.

By manning themselves, they're disciplining themselves.

They've got to have the inner character to actually deal with the reality.

And any leader's number one responsibility, whether it be of a corporation here in Silicon Valley,

or a football team or anything else is they have to define reality.

It is very hard to define an external reality if your internal geography is churning with no real anchor point.

You'll pick up very quickly if you have a leader who does not have a quiet mind if you're in a crisis.

You'll read it loud and clear.

And Lincoln was somehow able to take the worst crisis of our young nation, still young nation, even at 250.

And I think that this is why, is what Ryan's pointing out.

I think that, first of all, the idea that we are all custodians of our democracy.

We are all protectors of our Constitution.

All of us have that obligation.

I think we've gotten big as a country.

We're spread out.

We're diverse.

At times, it can seem like these things are kind of out there, and we're more spectators.

But democracy is not a spectator sport.