We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

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 person has to do and the only way you can do it is if you're willing to walk out the door if he doesn't take your advice. Or if you're willing to walk out the door if he goes over the line.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

I think it's particularly raw coming the day after the Electoral College, and Bill Clinton, he's taking this hard. It's been very hard to him. He thought his wife was gonna win. He believed she should have won. I think he believes, basically, it was an unfair result.

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.