Tulsa, OK – On Friday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) spoke at the Oklahoma National Guard’s 2025 The Adjutant General (TAG) Leadership Conference at the Osage Casino Hotel in Tulsa. Highlights of the Senator’s remarks from the event are available below.

On the keys to success:

“My four keys to success: honesty, hard work, respectful, responsible. Now, if I’m making a decision, it’s really hard to mess up if I’m making a decision and I’m checking every one of those boxes…

“Am I being honest with the way I’m making this decision? Am I being honest with myself? Am I being honest with everyone around me?…

“If I’m making a decision on hard work, am I cutting any corners? Am I making sure that I’m running every decision point to the end of the road and having a full, clear picture of my decision?”

On how to handle a bad day:

“If you’re having a bad day, don’t make anyone else have a bad day around you. Just because you’re having a bad day doesn’t give you the right to make somebody else have a bad day. It affects everybody and everything around you and it may even affect that’s second person’s home life…

“Because that person may go home and take it out on their spouse. Not physically, but they’re upset, and when they walk through the door instead of hugging their spouse, they go through the door, and they sit down on the couch, and they pout. Or they go to the bedroom, or they go to the backyard, and they start thinking, ‘well I’m gonna ease this pain by cracking a beer open. I’m gonna relax, I’m gonna take a shot,’ and it starts affecting people around you and you don’t even know it because you’re taking it out on the people around you because you had a bad day…

“If you’re having a bad day, get lost.”

On consistent leadership:

“Whoever is following you knows how you’re going to come to a decision. When they know how you’re going and they know how you think, they can follow you better. You have to be consistent in leadership.”

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