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.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

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 easy to confuse motion with progress.

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.

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.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.