What makes a great politician?

[My Name Is Kate]

I probably should have been more clear about what I meant by "healthy ego." Ideally, a leader should have an ego free of mental defects or major negative personality traits, but I was thinking more in terms of a large ego, since the preceding discussion was about humility. I guess we are lucky that we have had even as many leaders with manageable-sized egos as there were throughout history, given that positions of great power would seem to be a magnet for large egos. Courage and conviction to see what is right and to do it, can and should be a stabilizing factor.