Occupation: White House Staff Assistant Birth: May 9, 1942
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth..
At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they thi….
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands..
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 ….
There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. vThat may help Al Gore in this campaign,….
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..
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..
The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do..
It’s easy to confuse motion with progress..
Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way..
There 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 goo….
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 don't think any of us w….
If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm..
I think there's some generational difference between some of the older members of the press and this younger president [Bill Clinton]. I think the ol….
Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what'….
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 tho….
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….
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 d….
Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications an….