Tucker Carlson

It's not brilliance or superior planning.

Those are important sometimes.

But what really matters is intent, is the will to protect and serve the people you've been elected to protect and serve, to put at the very center of your agenda the people who put you there, the people in your country.

A love of those people gets you a lot farther than the best funded government program ever made.

It's a lot like parenthood.

You don't have to know a lot, but you have to be totally committed.

And the commitment has to derive from the love that you have for your children.

And if that is the case, you'll be a pretty good parent.

Good enough for sure.

And if you don't have that, it doesn't matter how much money you have.

Your kids are going to be screwed up because you will do a bad job.

So it's about intent.

How do you divine intent?

How do you know what a person wants?

Well, by the way he behaves.

You judge the tree by the fruit.

And so any leader whose focus is outward rather than on his own country is going to be a bad leader.

And this is the core problem with maintaining a global empire.

You are never going to find a leader.

You will never find an American president who is more interested in governing America than he is in governing the world.