If you look at history, every major realignment in our politics is a joining together of a new generation and emerging technologies. Obama has been a pioneer in joining the powers of the Internet with the principles of community organizing. Howard Dean used the Internet for meetups - Obama used it to create a movement.

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

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.

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.

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.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.