It requires the ability to think on your feet, motivate others, command respect, delegate and work around different personalities.
And we will always make sure that their voice is heard, respected and understood," Warsi told delegates.
"He's our most senior delegate and very respected.
The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, John Monks, said of the prime minister's talk, "Against a difficult background, I think he has earned a lot of respect from delegates".
The delegates elected Stephen F. Austin, a highly respected empresario, as president of the convention.
Santorum's Pennsylvania state director, Brian Nutt, is basically stuck hoping that the delegates who get selected will act honorably, telling the The Morning Call that "he hopes delegates will respect the wishes of the popular vote".
By Dan Balz and Perry Bacon Jr. Top fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign upbraided House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif). yesterday for suggesting that Democratic superdelegates should back the candidate with the most pledged delegates and urged her to respect the right of those delegates to back whomever they choose at the end of the primary season.
But many of the delegates are more ordinary people: schoolteachers, village leaders and respected tribal elders.
He said he hoped the Republican National Committee and the states in which he won delegates would respect his wishes.
This is not simply a question of respecting the referendum result (Labour delegates, after all, are in no hurry to recognise May's authority as a fairly elected prime minister).
A studious man with owlish spectacles who refers to himself as "Professor," he told delegates that Karzai "respects me and kisses my hand in public".
