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

- David Gergen

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.

- David Gergen

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

- David Gergen

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

- David Gergen

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…

- David Gergen

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 …

- David Gergen

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

- David Gergen

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…

- David Gergen

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

- David Gergen