The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.
David GergenA 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.
David GergenThere is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town and do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.
David GergenWe are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
David Gergen