David Gergen Quotes
- It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young…
- It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.
- Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.
- The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.
- Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.
- Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
- One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.
- If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.
- I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I…
- There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. That may help Al Gore in…
- A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
- We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.